We're Toast 27

This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It is part of an ongoing series of posts.

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This Is How You Get a Second Chernobyl — Or a Third World War. "Artillery shells are falling all around a Ukrainian nuclear plant, increasing the risk of an environmental Catastrophe.

TRUMP ALMIGHTY: Meet the Apostle of Right-Wing Christian Nationalism.  "The new Republican fringe is done with the separation of church and state. William "Dutch" Sheets has been trying to tear down that wall for decades."

A "Solar Tsunami" Could Entirely Wipe Out The Internet Within A Decade, Suggests Study. A severe solar storm could affect undersea cables that carry much of the internet's traffic.

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse. "Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences."

Ag’s challenging future in a changing climate. "More drought and higher heat from climate change increase risks of devastating global food shock events."

Food supply and security concerns mount as impacts stress agriculture. "In recent decades, worrisome rises in drought, heat waves, and air pollution have stressed agriculture."

World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds. "Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change."