The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists kept its Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight for the second year in a row, the closest the metaphorical countdown to our impending apocalypse has been in the organization’s 75-year history. Citing “many disturbing trends” including pandemic misinformation’s hindrance of a global recovery and the ever-looming threat of eco-collapse, the BAS conceded “several bright spots” such as a U.S. president that at least acknowledges climate change is a real issue, as well as some minor movements towards easing nuclear tensions between America and Russia.
Still, it doesn’t exactly do much to lessen the sting from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ reminder that we are all “at doom’s doorstep,” apparently. Read the room, BAS. C’mon.
