We're Toast 32

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.

Fallen Trees

Industrial Meat and Dairy Is Destroying the Planet. "Just 15 of the world's biggest meat and dairy companies are responsible for an overwhelming amount of methane emissions, a new report has found."

Sea level rise to dramatically speed up erosion of rock coastlines by 2100.* "Rock coasts, which make up over half the world's coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise."

Beyond Catastrophe.* "A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View."

I’m No Longer Sure New York Will Protect Itself From Rising Waters.* "What I’ve learned over the past 10 years is that we have the ability to defend our city in the face of climate change. But what is also clear, given the funding gaps and ever-extending deadlines, is that we won’t do it in time. In that case, is it better to be realistic?"

World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies. "The climate crisis has reached a “really bleak moment”, one of the world’s leading climate scientists has said, after a slew of major reports laid bare how close the planet is to catastrophe."

380 Million Tons of Plastic Are Made Every Year. None of It Is Truly Recyclable. "Not even water bottles and milk jugs meet standards for recyclability, a new report finds."

A MAGA America Would Be Ugly. "If America descends into one-party rule, it will be much worse, much uglier, than what we see in today’s Hungary.” An opinion piece by Paul Krugman. 

What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide?* "Today’s mess is better understood as a global polycrisis, a term the historian Adam Tooze at Columbia has recently popularized. The term implies that humanity is dealing with a complex knot of seemingly distinct but actually deeply entangled crises. Precisely because these crises are so entangled, they’re causing worldwide damage much greater than the sum of their individual harms."

* Paywall free-article gifted from NY Times subscription.