We're Toast 33

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.

Our wired future

We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion. "Elon Musk’s platform may be hell, but it’s also where huge amounts of reputational and social wealth are invested. All of that is in peril."

In Philadelphia, ‘tranq’ is leaving drug users with horrific wounds. Other communities are bracing for the same. As fentanyl wasn't bad enough.

Rapidly Melting Glaciers Are Releasing a Staggering Payload of Unknown Bacteria. "In a study of glacial runoff from 10 sites across the Northern Hemisphere, researchers have estimated that continued global warming over the next 80 years could release hundreds of thousands of tonnes of bacteria into environments downstream of receding glaciers."

Sperm count drop is accelerating worldwide and threatens the future of mankind, study warns. "Sperm counts worldwide have halved over the past five decades, and the pace of the decline has more than doubled since the turn of the century, new research shows. The international team behind it says the data is alarming and points to a fertility crisis threatening the survival of humanity.

China’s COVID Wave Is Coming. "The world’s most populous nation is being forced onto a zero-COVID off-ramp."

Extreme Heat Will Change Us. "Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measured the daily toll it is already taking."

World’s Nations Face Shrinking Odds of Taming Climate Mayhem. "It has been an alarming time for climate scientists. One by one, the grim scenarios they had outlined for the near future have been overtaken by events: extreme storms, droughts, floods and ice-sheet collapses whose sudden appearances have outstripped researchers’ worst predictions. Catastrophic climate change is happening more rapidly and with greater intensity than their grimmest warnings, it transpires."