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‘The odds are not in our favour’: who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about the future of humanity (www.theguardian.com)
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The Earth is getting hotter. Conflicts are raging, in the Middle East and Ukraine, each increasing the chance of nuclear war. AI is infiltrating almost every aspect of our lives, despite its unpredictability and tendency to hallucinate. Scientists, tinkering in labs, risk introducing new, deadly pathogens, more destructive than Covid. Our pandemic response preparedness has weakened. The Doomsday Clock – a large, quarter clock with no numbers, keeps ticking, counting down the seconds until the apocalypse. Tick. Tick. Tick. In January, we reached 85 seconds to midnight. Experts believe humanity has never stood so close to the brink.

“What we have seen is a slow almost sleepwalk into increasing dangers over the last decade. And we see these problems growing. We see science advancing at a rate that defies our ability to understand it, much less control it,” says Alexandra Bell, CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the organisation that sets the Doomsday Clock. She speaks of the “complete failure in leadership” in the US and other countries, which are doing little to address global, catastrophic threats, even as they feed into one another. Climate change increases global conflict, for instance, and the incorporation of AI into nuclear decision-making is, frankly, terrifying.

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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mate the black plague killed damn well near everyone and it would have been worse if not for many pockets of civilization still being removed enough and self sufficient enough to not have to deal with it in a major way.

If something of that scope hit today it would be many folds worse. Even covid was a fraction of what the black plague was in terms of reach and that ground things to a halt and killed an absurd number of people.

We would unironically be flung back decades if we are lucky and a hundred or two years if we arnt into the past if we had to rebuild after a black plague level event.

That's not even a unreasonable take. That's like a lukewarm take at best. If your goanna use an example at least use one that supports your claim