At 89 Seconds to Midnight, Doomsday Clock Now 'Closest It Has Ever Been to Catastrophe' | Common Dreams
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight, highlighting threats from nuclear weapons, the climate emergency, and emerging technologies.
  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    35·
    2 days ago

    Back during the Cold War, the leaders seemed to at least have some semblance of self perservation of their nation.

    Right now, we have two leaders who don’t give a shit about their nations, they are justs the excuse and the means to an end for them.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        231·
        2 days ago

        There are currently three nations with these types of leaders that are capable of inflicting dammage on eachother.

        The USA, Russia and China.

        Two of them seems to have lost all sense of reality, The US and Russia, one of which is currently engaged in a war, Russia.

        China is happy to just take a bigger piece of the pie from the US and Russia.

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Well, I thought Modi was the greatest risk to ending all life on earth, but now its Trump again.