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Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board, Climate Change, Climate disruption, Doomsday Clock, Nature & Environment, Nuclear tensions
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: It is 3 minutes to midnight
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Climate Change and Nuclear Tensions Push Doomsday Clock Hands Forward
“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, and 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.”
~ Opening paragraph of Statement from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board, Washington D.C., January 22, 2015.
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Thanks for this, Rosaliene. The clock is striking the first time you hear about it. I wonder, however, to what extent its impact has been reduced by familiarity. It has been around for decades, never very far from midnight. We don’t seem to hear the ticking.
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You may be right, Dr. Stein. Since the Doomsday Clock began ticking in 1947, it may have lost its impact. In moving the clock two minutes closer to midnight from its five-minute setting in 2012, our atomic scientists have set off another alarm for our world leaders who have stopped hearing the ticking.
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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A big thank you, Cyril 🙂
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I agree with Dr. Stein – sometimes I wonder if all the climate change/global warming advocates and organizations haven’t given many people the idea that governments are actually tackling (“resolving”) the problems.
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In that case, people need awakening to the truth.
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