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Since 1947, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has updated the Doomsday Clock, an estimate of how close humanity is to the end of civilization as we know it. The clock had been set at 100 seconds to midnight since 2020, but with the intensification of...
by Alan Singer
on Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 04:39 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Despite fears of the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war — recently, Vladimir Putin ominously announced a...
by TomDispatch
on Mon Apr 10, 2023 at 06:42 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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Growing up, I devoured science fiction and all its idealistic Utopian notions of our ability to overcome our own limitations. Star Trek assured us the future was more or less bright. When I ...
by thevaxguy
on Tue Apr 21, 2020 at 01:55 PM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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For countries that use the Gregorian calendar, Tuesday night, December 31, 2019 people will usher in the dawn of the new year 2020. Here in the US, the biggest public celebration includes the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” and the dropping of the ball in...
by melshim
on Mon Dec 30, 2019 at 05:07 AM PST
with 2 Recommends
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How to use “#SharedSecurityWorks. #PreemptiveWarFails!” Now
by Susan C. Strong
With President Trump’s choice of Bolton as National Security Adviser and Pompeo for State, our country has reached a more dangerous place than ever, especially in the...
by SusanCStrong
on Sat Apr 14, 2018 at 11:02 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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Mankind has had a fear of our demise, most likely since we first came into existence. Throughout history we have been postulating, in books and movies, as to how our end would come. Be it Artificial Intelligence, Natural disaster,...
by gr8estmcs
on Thu Apr 12, 2018 at 04:03 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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It’s not paranoid to entertain the possibility of hugely devastating events. Maybe some fool starts a nuclear war that escalates into World War III. Or an asteroid strike. Or, what makes me most nervous, a giant volcanic eruption spreading a cloud of...
by ej heinemann
on Sun Oct 08, 2017 at 05:08 AM PDT
with 0 Recommends
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Well, this isn’t working out as planned…
It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain...
by randym77
on Fri May 19, 2017 at 12:38 PM PDT
with 226 Recommends
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The scientists in the group do wonderful work and try to monitor how close we are to self destruction. Below is some history of who they are and when and why they move the hands on the doomsday clock.
But first, they’ve just released their decision...
by pollwatcher
on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 07:08 AM PST
with 9 Recommends
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From: impracticalcogitator.wordpress.com/...
We ony have one planet, and we are killing it.
The rate with which environmental factors accelerate year by year indicates that our children will face irreversible disasters on a scale Hollywood films...
by parango
on Tue Aug 16, 2016 at 06:02 PM PDT
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If you lived in Tornado Alley, with a good chance someday an F5 would barrel down on you like a freight train, you’d have to think, OK, what am I gonna do, if the sirens start to blare? What if the power went out, if there was no food in the stores,...
by kay dub
on Wed Aug 03, 2016 at 04:00 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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I have loved post-apocalyptic fiction since I was 9 or 10 years old. I was 10 during the Cuban Missile crisis, and I remember being a little precocious shit once when my mom asked me what I really wanted to be when I grew up (my response: “you mean if...
by kiwiheart
on Wed Aug 03, 2016 at 12:55 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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Anonomous That rider of the white horse wielding the sword of truth? anarchy? righteous indignation? frustration? fury? All of the above, and perhaps more? Are they Sith, Jedi, or perhaps teetering on
by nickydale
on Mon Nov 16, 2015 at 07:41 PM PST
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I had Yet Another Republican (presumably) go off on how ...
by darkonc
on Wed Jul 29, 2015 at 02:06 AM PDT
with 152 Recommends
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Today, a group of prominent scientists and Nobel laureates issued a warning to the world. They said that climate change and nuclear war are ...
by VL Baker
on Thu Jan 22, 2015 at 02:07 PM PST
with 24 Recommends
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miniRant
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,
by siab
on Wed Oct 15, 2014 at 07:10 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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I believe the world ended on 5 April, 1761. If you haven't heard of this tragic event, well, your ancestors were just not paying attention. In a world that where most people still believed in the ...
by KAMuston
on Wed Mar 19, 2014 at 06:00 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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Child labor and the end of doomsday: Highlights of the week.
by maxfolger
on Fri Dec 20, 2013 at 05:15 PM PST
with 1 Recommend
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Cross-posted with EcoWatch
Consider this: nearly all life on Earth could go extinct because of manmade climate change.
Internationally syndicated talk show host and bestselling author Thom ...
by Renewable Rider
on Tue Oct 08, 2013 at 02:45 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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Wow. These guys are really giving me a workout, considering this is supposed to be an off-year.
This one qualifies as a personal rant, but with the way things are going, it's impossible to ...
by Crashing Vor
on Tue Oct 08, 2013 at 02:24 PM PDT
with 149 Recommends
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