Watch Live: Doomsday clock shows how close we are to global catastrophe in 2024
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'Doomsday Clock' Kept at 90 Seconds to Midnight
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The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
As noted by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the fact that the ticker hasn't been moved closer to midnight doesn't mean the world is getting better. After war broke out in Eastern Europe in 2022, war has now broken out in the Middle East; and after society dragged its feet on climate policy for years, governments are still not acting fast enough to save the planet. As new technologies and global threats continue to emerge, complacency is the enemy.
Establishment-critical narrative
The Doomsday Clock is a silly, pseudoscientific scam at best, and a politically biased agenda pusher at worst — likely the latter. Over the decades, the clock has been pushed closer to midnight under Republican US administrations and further away during Democratic ones. What the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists really measures is how anxious liberals are depending on who's living in the White House.