![]() Total nuclear exchange would not: so that is what we are dealing with. And a virus pandemic would always have some survivors. But global warming, even in worst case scenarios (and I have myself followed this and made my own calculations) wont wipe out life on Earth, except indirectly by creating resource wars which might go nuclear. On the top page of Google (again) we see that the Guardian, Telegraph and ‘Science’ blame the movement of the clock hands on the election of Mr Trump.ĪBC seems to think it is global warming. ![]() ![]() We see NATO creeping closer to Russia, and the absurd attempts by the US to bring Ukraine into the operation. Let’s think about this a bit.Īdded to all this is the US abandonment of the arms limitation agreements and the re-investment in missile development. The clock has been advanced to two and a half minutes to midnight. Now it has been extended to global warming, virus pandemics, and more or less anything that the media have decided makes a good story. The Doomsday clock about nuclear annihilation, is a simple illustration of the fact that life on Earth had been around for billions of years but that Clever Old Man had developed a system that could switch it off with an hour-long firework extravaganza. Women then were refusing to have children because they didn’t want them to live in a world of fear and probable atomisation. ![]() It was a defining moment in my life, and the lives of my friends. I didn’t need to go to Google to find this out. This almost happened when I was a young man, culminating in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis which the top page of Google informs us was a “direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.” It was thought that atomic war would wipe out everyone on earth. ![]()
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