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WE ARE ONLY 3 MINUTES FROM MIDNIGHT, PEOPLE
Thursday morning, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hand on the Doomsday Clock 2 minutes later, setting the time to only 3 minutes before midnight. The clock, which symbolically represents Earths proximity to disaster, now indicates that the probability of global catastrophe is very high.
Agence France-Presse reports:
It has been at five minutes to midnight since 20112 and the last time it was three minutes to midnight was in 1983, when the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was at its iciest.
In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity, said Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin in a statement. World leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth.
Link: http://www.salon.com/2015/01/22/scientists_moved_the_doomsday_clock_2_minutes_closer_to_midnight/
Shit.
benz380
(534 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)And maybe one or two more out of 10 arent sure.
What is known to be absolutes like climate change and nuclear proliferation, being potentially life ending, are accepted by many, but not all.
Right now in our government we have very powerful men and women dedicated to destroying the environment and stopping our president from negotiating peace with a potential nuclear enemy.
Elected officials actively seeking to cause death and destruction, right now...
Right here...today.
In America.
Elected, and will be reelected.
inanna
(3,547 posts)Good video.
2naSalit
(86,572 posts)but it sure does depict what disgusting, sick species we are.