The Doomsday Clock Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival By Noam Chomsky

The Doomsday Clock
Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival
By Noam Chomsky
[This essay is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books).] 
In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The Bulletin’s statement explaining this advance toward catastrophe invoked the two major threats to survival: nuclear weapons and “unchecked climate change.” The call condemned world leaders, who “have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe,” endangering “every person on Earth [by] failing to perform their most important duty -- ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization.”
Since then, there has been good reason to consider moving the hands even closer to doomsday.
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