The clock is dumb, just fear-mongering. Anything that is big enough to set the clock forward is probably already something you're already aware of. Maybe it's good for getting people to discuss the inevitable decline, but really its just a vague subjective measure of the state of the world. It's been at 2 minutes before, back in the cold war, and again here we are at 2 minutes. What's the point of the time analogy if they just set it back when they realize things weren't as bad as they though.
RE: Doomsday Clock - How to Save the World in 2018
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True usually when something large enough happens people already know about it. Yet when I'm thinking about the fact that right now is just as dangerous as the Cold War, well, it really makes you stop and think. No one is really acting as though there is such a present threat, almost taking it all with a grain of salt. Yet, the Doomsday Clock really confirms it - There is a real danger here, our scientists and specialists say so, so please PLEASE actually pay attention and work to solve this.
Also, my understanding is that they don't just set it back when they realize things weren't as bad as they thought. It is more like, things were as bad as they thought, but people actually worked to set them straight and fix the problem. The clock went back in time a lot once treaties were signed between North America and Russia, once that nuclear threat wasn't there anymore.
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