Why the Doomsday Clock has outlived its usefulness (theconversation.com)
from new_otters_raft@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 01:00
https://piefed.ca/c/world/p/573777/why-the-doomsday-clock-has-outlived-its-usefulness

Complacency about the serious challenges the world is facing is not an option. But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock isn’t helpful.

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Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 07 Mar 01:26 next collapse

Maybe humanity wasn’t meant to survive? We have all the high quality data and analysis, we refuse to act on it. We have helpful communication tools like the clock. Information is not the issue. The will to fight our uglier instincts has held everything up to now.

We should at least consider the possibility that we are not up to the task.

TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca on 07 Mar 01:56 collapse

I think it would be better to get humanity out from under the boot of tyrants before you make such judgements. We still live under the crushing oppression of kings, albeit under different names and often from the shadows.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 07 Mar 02:07 collapse

That tyranny is at the heart of the point I was making.

cecilkorik@lemmy.ca on 07 Mar 02:06 collapse

So… the doomsday clock has run out of time, is that what you’re saying? Seems apropos.

Deme@sopuli.xyz on 07 Mar 03:24 collapse

It stopped being useful ever since they stopped using it just to visualize how quickly a nuke war could end things. Climate change is serious as shit, but it’s not going to lock in total devestation within the next two minutes. Same goes for many other slow-burn threats they try to cram in there. Many of them are already here, pretty much none have a discreet threshold to count towards.