We're Toast 47

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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The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble. "New research finds that the groundwater systems that hydrate your life are in rapid, sometimes accelerating decline around the globe. Here’s how to stop the retreat."

New research shows that COVID-19 can cause "significant drops in IQ scores". Tje article has links to several sites citing this and similar research. It's not over folks. Mask up!

Scientists Are Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures (gift link). “It’s like an omen of the future.” 

Imperiling Climate Goals, Global Resource Extraction Set to Surge 60% by 2060. "Wealthy nations are responsible for most of the consumption of natural resources, according to a new United Nations report."

Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust. "The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn."

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system. "The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse, has raised global concern. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic variability. Now, the region is increasingly exposed to unprecedented stress from warming temperatures, extreme droughts, deforestation and fires, even in central and remote parts of the system."

Category 6 Hurricanes Are Already Here. "Some scientists say Category 5 is not enough to describe the monster storms that have battered us in recent years."

There's Plastic in My Plaque! "First report of micro/nano plastics in patients with atheroma and their link to worse clinical outcomes (composite of all-cause death, heart attack and stroke)."