And

 

the hits just keep a comin...

The Doomsday Clock moves to 90 seconds to midnight, signaling more peril than ever

"The world is closer to catastrophe than ever: the Doomsday Clock, the metaphorical measure of challenges to humanity, was reset to 90 seconds before midnight on Tuesday."

"The science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said the move — the closest to widespread calamity humanity has ever been judged to be — was "largely, though not exclusively" due to the war in Ukraine.'

"The scientists behind the Doomsday Clock use it to alert humanity to threats from within — the perils we face from our own technologies, particularly through nuclear war, global climate change and biotechnology."

"Of the new update, Mary Robinson, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: "The Doomsday Clock is sounding an alarm for the whole of humanity. We are on the brink of a precipice. But our leaders are not acting at sufficient speed or scale to secure a peaceful and livable planet."

(How many times have I said on here:

"We dont have time for all of that?

Or, "they are assuming they have the time needed" to do all that etc?

We dont.

Times running out.

The door on the ark shuts.

The drawbridge closes 

etc...)

"Much of Tuesday's announcement focused on Russia, and President Vladimir Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons and his refusal to accept anything other than victory in Ukraine.

"Even if nuclear use is avoided in Ukraine," said Steve Fetter, dean of the graduate school and professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, "the war has challenged the nuclear order — the system of agreements and understandings that have been constructed over six decades to limit the dangers of nuclear weapons."

Fetter also noted that the U.S., Russia and China are working to modernize their arsenals."

Doomsday Clock 2023 time says the world is closer than ever to global catastrophe

"Between Russia's nuclear brinkmanship in its war on Ukraine, the real threats of climate change becoming increasingly dire and ongoing concerns about more possible pandemics caused by humans encroaching on formerly wild areas, the Bulletin chose to set the clock to the closest midnight yet."

"The world is facing a gathering storm of extinction-level consequences, exacerbated by the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia."

"The threats are even more acute, and the failures of leadership even more damning. We live today in a world of interlocking crises, each illustrating the unwillingness of leaders to act in the true long-term interests of their people," she said. 

(Thats key, they are all interconnected and nothing is being done to correct them, Covid showed the need for a unified response to a crisis and humanity just dropped the ball so to speak, so what is there in the way of thinking that says, based on what evidence:

"Well get all these other crisis right and fixed"?

No.

You won't.

They will only continue to get worse.

People are just not seeing this for the moment that it is. 

They're really not.)

"The movement of the clock to just 90 seconds to midnight sends a message that the world's situation is urgent, with possible broad consequences and long-standing effects, said the Bulletin's president, Rachel Bronson.

"What we're conveying with this clock move is things are not going in the right direction, and they haven't been going in the right direction. Those who are listening say 'The world doesn't feel safer today,' – they're not alone," she said. 

(And like I said, they're not gonna go "in the right direction".

Period.

To many  interlocked and unresolved crises

from to many different directions

all at once

with no good answers for any of them

to just continue to think 

it's all just gonna work itself out and be okay.

Only one thing gonna straighten this mess out and he aint here yet.)

"The war has eroded norms of international conduct.

"Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict – by accident, intention, or miscalculation – is a terrible risk. The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high," the statement read."