Today scientists will update the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock, a symbolic construct designed to reflect how close the world perches to total annihilation. Perhaps it’s ironic that, 60 years after the Clock’s conception in 1947, we are right back to where we started … a mere 5 minutes to midnight. The clock has changed times over the years, but we’re almost as close as we’ve ever gotten.
No great statement or moral here. Only the hope that, together, the people of the world can reverse the course we’re on. Maybe we can buy a few minutes more.
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