In revealing the annual #DoomsdayClock, @BulletinAtomic highlights the proliferation of conspiracies and the consistent eroding of scientific truth as an escalating concern in how we respond to crisis.
Yet, somehow, they leave the 2021 doomsday clock unchanged. /1
Yet, somehow, they leave the 2021 doomsday clock unchanged. /1
The official reveal: /2
https://twitter.com/bulletinatomic/status/1354447233576546306
Lots of focus from speakers about the anticipated policy shifts a Biden admin heralds, and the need for US leadership in climate, health, arms control discussions. /3
@MaEllenSirleaf highlights the crisis of mobilization that covid has exposed —
This issue of mobilization is a critical one. /4
This issue of mobilization is a critical one. /4
Sirleaf: the hands of the clock may be still, but that doesn’t mean that the threats that we face are immobile.
100% this. /5
100% this. /5
... sometimes I feel like no one actually reads what Russian military/defense leaders say about the use of tactical nuclear weapons, in particular that they view them as a conventional weapon /6
For greatpower.us, I ask how disinformation and the use of online platforms to accelerate conspiracies and extremist views impacts our ability to assess the threats we face.
/7
/7
The scientists are optimists, answering that they believe scientific truth is the signal that is starting to cut through the noise on covid, climate issues. (I wish I shared their optimism, but I think we hang around in different parts of the internet!) /8
President Sirleaf highlights that this a particular challenge for leaders — and that there is a critical need for leaders to be amplifiers of truth /9
In response to a question about how much issues of US leadership are a factor in doomsday calculations, Jerry Brown posits that it doesn’t matter that Russia attacks other nations because we need them on arms control... /10
... and it doesn’t matter that China is [some euphemism he offered for imprisoning millions of Uighurs in “re-education”/forced labor camps] because we need them on climate change.
As you know, I don’t agree, & understand this is how we are manipulated into doing nothing l /11
As you know, I don’t agree, & understand this is how we are manipulated into doing nothing l /11
https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/1351634205869015044
I understand the origins of this 1960s/treatise-from-inside-the-end-nukes-tent-on-the-White-House-lawn view — but, the compromise this is requesting endorses human oppression as long as the autocrats in charge produce less CO2 — and just, no. No. This can’t be the way. /12
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