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IIRC, the Doomsday Clock was about nuclear war. If we're including "climate change", what other things should we include?
by bjt2n3904 10y ago
IIRC, the Doomsday Clock was about nuclear war. If we're including "climate change", what other things should we include?
- nagvx 10y ago>represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change,[4] and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock It has been this way for nearly a decade. It's also plausible that they are linked - climate change destroying natural resources (land, food, etc.) certainly has the potential to inflict political instability and conflict.
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