On Wednesday, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced they have moved the Doomsday Clock forward so it now rests 2 minutes before midnight.
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. Ever since 1998, when India and Pakistan started testing nuclear weapons, the Doomsday Clock has been just single digits away from midnight.
But after the disaster that was 2017, when world leaders failed to respond effectively to looming threats of nuclear war and climate change, scientists have moved the minute hand forward by 30 seconds.
The Clock is now closer than it has ever been to Doomsday since the height of the Cold War in 1953.
"In 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearned that minimizing evidence-based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies," said Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO.
According to the experts, last year's greatest threats came from the nuclear realm, leaving humanity on the "cusp of a new arms race." North Korea's nuclear weapons progress and the "hyperbolic rhetoric and provocative actions" from both the U.S. and North Korea have increased the possibility of nuclear war, they say.
People terrified around the world about the possibility of a nuclear war.
Somewhere you just know that Putin is sitting with a self satisfied grin on his face.
A population in fear, is a population easily manipulated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/26/dutch-media-reveal-country-to-be-secret-u-s-ally-in-war-against-russian-hackers/?utm_term=.ec4b5323de8b
ReplyDeleteRussian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the Dutch reports on Friday, denouncing them as untrustworthy.
“If Dutch newspapers want to add fuel to the fire of anti-Russian hysteria that exists in America, this is not the most noble occupation,”according to Russia's Tass news agency."
https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/what-the-doomsday-clock-doesnt-tell-us.html
ReplyDelete'The short answer is not much. When the clock was first conceived in 1947, it was set at 11:53, seven minutes before Doomsday, because, as artist Martyl Langsdorf put it, “It looked good to my eye.” As repentant Manhattan Project scientists, the founding members of the Bulletin were well aware of the consequences of their work, and wanted the public to be mindful of potential risks going forward, too. So they created a simple, visually striking system by which to measure the state of the world: The closer we get to midnight, the more urgently action is needed to prevent an existential threat to humankind.'
'the clock’s logic is neither precise nor especially incisive. In 2007, it branched out from nuclear weapons alone to incorporate other threats, namely climate change and the unchecked rise of biotech. These are issues worth exploring and engaging with, but tossing them in alongside the possibility of nuclear warfare feels strange if not irresponsible, especially when no effort is made to quantify their relative contributions to our ostensible impending demise." “Doomsday Clock”—and its ongoing association with nuclear apocalypse—defies nuance. The approach fails in its stated purpose of advancing the public understanding of these very disparate threats when it flattens them into one measurement by design"
"The Bulletin’s other work—rewarding new voices in the field, writing smart, open-access analysis, drawing up nuanced policies—has achieved far more than an arbitrary arbiter of death and destruction ever will. It’s time to stop the clock and start listening to the science that’s supposed to inform it."
https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/2018%20Doomsday%20Clock%20Statement.pdf
Call it The Extinction Clock. We're that close to wiping ourselves off the planet, either quickly or slowly, but once you hit midnight, there's no going back.
Deleteaka Anthropocene
Delete"The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity. The term was first used in the technical sense by Russian geologist Alexey Pavlov, and it was first used in English by British ecologist Arthur Tansley in reference to human influences on climax plant communities.[16] The atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen introduced the term "Anthropocene" in the mid-1970s.[17] The term is sometimes used in the context of pollution emissions that are produced as a result of human activities but applies broadly to all major human impacts on the environment."
A population in fear, is a population easily manipulated.
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Bingo, and I, for one, will not be.
Why would anyone want to read that type information? It's all about fear! It's better to try and be positive in this challenging State of Alaska and country!
ReplyDeleteWhich population is in fear again?
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ReplyDeleteI thought we were at least at 30 seconds.
Twitler so wants to use those nukes on....anyone. He really doesn't care who. Just wants to use them.
After years of citizen united raping America with the help of the NRA and heritage scam. America is flooded with assault weapons, bunkers, survival foods and IGNORANCE from defunding public schools and the silence of commonsense. IT IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!! Wake up people and fight against this rape of America. We have never been a white America and never will be. END the face of evil. The Trump shithole's and foundation of debt. BOYCOTT and PROTEST the state of his union of liars.
ReplyDeleteLand Grab:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-zinke-public-lands-infrastructure-plan_us_5a679e51e4b0e56300746c35?section=us_green
Long read >"Fred Warmbier denounced Young Pioneer Tours for turning his son into “fodder” for the isolated regime. “They lure Americans, then they take them hostage, then they do things to them, and that’s what happened to my son,” he said, conflating the Young Pioneers with the North Korean government.
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly, YPT was doing a less than stellar job of convincing people that it was not, say, a malign backpacking cult. In the wake of Otto’s death, the group scrubbed any mention of him from its various accounts, aside from a Facebook note stating that “we too are reeling with the shock of a young man's life taken well before his time.” YPT discreetly amended the “North Korea FAQ” section of its website. No longer was the question “How safe is it?” followed by the answer: “Extremely safe! Despite what you may hear, North Korea is probably one of the safest places on Earth to visit.” Now, YPT acknowledged: “Despite what you may hear, for most nationalities, North Korea is probably one of the safest places on Earth to visit provided you follow the laws as provided by our documentation and pre-tour briefings.”"
'Gareth Johnson, a 37-year-old Brit'
"a foolhardy entrepreneur who has started several companies beyond YPT. One was a Philippines-based stag party service called Gross Negligence Travel that promised “beaches, babes, bullets and booze (all cheap).”"“It does not get much more adventurous and off the beaten path than this.”
"We were engaging in “dark tourism.” We were poking around a “death space,” as specialists term it, a site “where the death of others is commoditized as a tourist product.” Such spaces, Young Pioneer traffics in them."
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/dark-tourism/
https://www.themoviedb.org/collection/86578-hostel-collection?language=en
Deletehttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/porn-star-found-dead-three-month-time-span-article-1.3768085
"The night before she tweeted out a photo of herself in an all black outfit with the caption: “I feel it everywhere, nothing scares me anymore.”
Family and friends had previously expressed “deep concern at the volume of prescription drugs prescribed to Olivia and the danger it posed her” should she mix the drugs with alcohol, which is the suspected cause of death, according to the statement.
The actress appeared in a string of television series over the course of her career, including “Vixen” and “Hostel XXX.”"
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"Lua follows the early deaths of several other porn stars, including fellow LA Direct model, 20-year-old Olivia Nova. She was found dead at a La$ Vega$ home on Jan. 7."
OT? 1st Nation Navajos:
ReplyDelete"The Democratic leader of the state Senate blasted the “unacceptable” response by law enforcement after officers were allegedly instructed to stand down."
https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2018/01/26/arizona-capitol-eric-descheenie-cesar-chavez-lisette-flores-selianna-robles-katie-hobbs-tomas-robles-trump-supports-yell-illegal/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3CmXGKXOmk
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Kind of pisses me off that this is even more topical almost nine years later. Different puppets, same hands."
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"A population in fear, is a population easily manipulated."
ReplyDeleteSo which population is is fear again....? Seems to me that the people in fear are the ones that think some symbolic non-working clock that can foretell the future are the ones living in fear....
Fear Not:
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