Speaking of existential dread, bordering on terror ...
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The Doomsday Clock is now at two minutes until midnight - the closest to midnight it has been since 1953.
And this part of the news report really hit home for me:
"Asked whether the global security situation today is really as dire as it was at the Cold War's peak, Bronson said, “It's somewhat of apples and oranges if you try to compare times.”
"But there are many more nuclear states now than there were in 1953, she noted. And global warming is no longer a distant, hypothetical threat.
"Overall, Kartha said, the group worries about the public's diminishing trust in the forces that might combat these dangers. The experts noted the U.S. agencies responsible for handling nuclear and environmental threats are depleted: The U.S. diplomatic corps is shrinking, the president has not named a science adviser, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy remains almost unstaffed.
“One of the main considerations of the group this year has been the overall weakening of institutions,” Kartha said. “The willingness to disavow multilateralism … the heedlessness of scientific facts.”
"The news conference lasted just 45 minutes, yet was bleak enough to fill any listener with a sinking sense of existential dread."
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