We're Toast 36

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

• Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. It would be interesting to see data from neighbourhoods surrounding busy highways.
• Mass Climate Migration Is Coming. With rising sea levels  and extreme weather events, the global north needs to prepare to welcome displaced people.
• Australia’s epic wildfires expanded ozone hole and cranked up global heat. "Smoke from the unprecedented 2020 fires increased temperatures in the stratosphere by 3°C in some places."
• Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations. Houston, we have a problem.
• How The Koch Network Hijacked The War On Covid. God help us if we get hit with an H5N1 avian flu pandemic after this.
• Tracking the bird flu, experts see a familiar threat — and a virus whose course is hard to predict. From the end of the article: '“If we did have another pandemic right now I think it would be very difficult to get the public to do anything to try to limit or control transmission. That is to me a big setback,” he said.'
• The fungal threat to human health is growing in a warmer, wetter, sicker world. "In the HBO show “The Last of Us,” characters identify zombies among them by the fungi that bursts from their bodies, and fungal parasites manipulate the humans to infect the communities around them. In real life, the fungal species that inspired the story, Ophiocordyceps, infects insects and does not cause problems for people. HBO, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. However, the threat from fungal pathogens is increasing, experts say, and may grow much worse in a warmer, wetter and sicker world."
  
• Capitalism is killing the planet – it's time to stop buying into our own destruction. "Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up."