Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16232528
I think the top comment still holds, this organization is just acting as a hollow political mouthpiece at this point.
I think the top comment still holds, this organization is just acting as a hollow political mouthpiece at this point.
Why is that a bad thing?
The situation is grave, but the Doomsday Clock is a joke.
Folding "climate change" into that makes only slightly more sense than augmenting a tornado warning system with information on the skyrocketing national debt. Mushy metaphors do little to change the world.
Perhaps the clock's maintainers sought to fend off irrelevance; no one pays attention to nuclear weapons as a threat in the West (barring occasional North Korea flare-ups). If that is the case, however, I fear that this has only made things worse.