Spaceweather.com has an unsettling report on human activity messing with us all:
SPACE WEATHER AND THE RUSSIAN ASAT STRIKE: Russia just destroyed one of its own satellites. On Nov. 15, 2021, a missile launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome struck Kosmos 1408, shattering the old satellite into thousands of pieces. Debris came so close to the ISS that astronauts took shelter in their crew capsules, just in case they had to abandon ship.
Littering Earth orbit with debris is never a good idea. Space weather could make it much worse. To understand why, …
Go follow the link. Losing satellites means losing cheap communications, accurate weather forecasting such as incoming hurricanes, etc etc. Hurricanes that kill more than a thousand people are a big deal these days; back at the beginning of the 20th century, Galveston lost somewhere around ten thousand people to the 1900 storm, a magnitude more than today. If weather does become more violent as a result of anthropogenic climate change, then losing warnings means more people killed, as well as more damage, due to lack of preparation.
