We're Toast 59

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. 

On the way to the lake

• The Country Most Vulnerable To Air Pollution Right Now Is... The USA. And the Trump regime is making it worse.
• The Threat of Avian Influenza H5N1 Looms Over Global Biodiversity. H5N1 is a threat to more than just birds and humans. 
• In Our New Climate Reality, There Is No Getting Back to Normal. "The media is failing to warn us about the scale of the disasters that lie ahead. In Los Angeles, as everywhere, we need more than liberal technocratic tweaks."
• The Whole World is Whining. "Edelman’s Trust Barometer and the airing of grievances." Angry people do stupid things. 
• We are witnessing the destruction of science in America. "If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented."
• Is Our Luck Running Out? "Nature is being less helpful with our carbon pollution."
• Is Our Luck Running Out? Part Two. "Oceans failing to protect us from our own heat pollution." 
• Threats to public health at every angle. "Covid anniversary, pandemic revisionism, chronic diseases, and a boulder going down the hill." 
• The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism”. "It’s not just the Trump administration. Bankers, centrist Democrats, and others are embracing the idea that climate targets were never realistic—and that we should now prepare,ruthlessly, for a new future."
• Russia and China are threatening SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation, new report finds. "A future conflict in space could have massive, long-term negative repercussions that are felt here on Earth, as everyone on this planet is a user of space data in some form."
• Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer. "Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure." When the insurance companies are worried, it's time to pay attention. 
• ‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis. "Northern Ontario is seeing a ‘shorter window’ for ice roads that deliver vital supplies to remote First Nations."
• Scientists Highlight Surprising New Threat to Satellites: Climate Change. "By the year 2100, some parts of Earth orbit may have upwards of 66% less carrying capacity for satellites, according to a new study."