Is the world as close to a global manmade catastrophe as in 1953?

[Masterhawk]

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists seem to think so as the doomsday clock (which is adjusted on Jan 24 of each year) has been set to 11:58 since 2018. The last time the doomsday clock was set at this time was in 1953 when the US and Soviet Union had tested their first thermonuclear bombs the prior year. The clock was first set in 1947 and was first set at 11:53. This clock was meant to show the risk of nuclear war in the amount of minutes till midnight with midnight indicating a global manmade catastrophe. Originally, this specifically referred to nuclear war but has more recently included climate change. For a sense of scale, the doomsday clock was the closest to midnight in 1953-1959 and 2018-today at 11:58 and the furthest at 1991-1994 at 11:43 (as a result of the end of the cold war).

 

[Hawkeye10]

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists seem to think so as the doomsday clock (which is adjusted on Jan 24 of each year) has been set to 11:58 since 2018. The last time the doomsday clock was set at this time was in 1953 when the US and Soviet Union had tested their first thermonuclear bombs the prior year. The clock was first set in 1947 and was first set at 11:53. This clock was meant to show the risk of nuclear war in the amount of minutes till midnight with midnight indicating a global manmade catastrophe. Originally, this specifically referred to nuclear war but has more recently included climate change. For a sense of scale, the doomsday clock was the closest to midnight in 1953-1959 and 2018-today at 11:58 and the furthest at 1991-1994 at 11:43 (as a result of the end of the cold war).

We are closer because we did not have global catastrophe then but we are certainly in the process of it now. The exact mechanism cant be said but this sumbitch is going down, it is too late to stop it now, we went too long not caring enough about civilization......assuming that we can keep wrecking it forever without working to regenerate it.

Rights got divorced from responsibility and we also stopped caring about Truth and getting ourselves educated.

That sort of idiocy gets charged by the Universe every time.

 

[Xelor]

By my reckoning, Donald Trump and his presidency combine to form a global catastrophe; thus we're already in one. So long as he's POTUS, all that can happen is that it gets better or gets worse.