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A reminder that we are closer to midnight on the Doomsday clock right now than we ever have since it's inception, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nuclear weapons are not a problem of the past, they are more of a threat than they have ever been.

@thomasembree

The doomsday clock is nothing but a subjective "Eh, Like maybe we feel this way today? I guess?" indicator for the feelings of a very non-random group of scientists. It has literally never predicted anything, and isn't even based on a constant set of criteria.

Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦

@AlexanderKingsbury Like, literally the whole point of the Doomsday clock is to have emotional resonance with people to motivate them to take better care of themselves and the planet.

Without that emotional investment, people don't do anything. If you don't care about something, you aren't going to put time and effort into it.

Even you are motivated by your emotional investment in the things you find appealing.