Sure, someone launching nuclear weapons could end us all in an instant. Climate change is worrying though, because it’s slow, so you don’t have to be malevolent to do it. You can just not be paying attention…

What a lot of media outlets seem to have neglected to cover about this story is the fact that over the past sixty years since the creation of the Doomsday Clock in 1947, the hands have been moved 18 times—and there are only FOUR occasions when it was moved closer to midnight than it is now.

Tell me that this isn’t frighteningly significant—and significant frightening.

People were pretty anxious about world affairs even before the Doomsday Clock moved up—Public Agenda’s Foreign Policy Anxiety Indicator (http://publicagenda.com/foreignpolicy/foreignpolicy_sidebar.htm) stands at 130 on a 200-point scale. Eight in 10 Americans say they worry about a terrorist attack using biological, chemical or nuclear weapons (47 percent worry “a lot”). The public also gives the government mediocre grades for stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. Even fewer give the government high marks for fighting global warming.

Check it out at:
http://publicagenda.com/foreignpolicy/foreignpolicy_sidebar.htm

Can I give you a 4 alarm-er? bush is planning to attack Iran with nuclear bunker-busters.

If you don’t know this, you haven’t been paying attention. Not satisfied with making an entire region of the world uninhabitable till the end of time by contaminating it with depleted uranium, a war crime, he now is going to disperse millions-of-tons of radio-active sands into the atmosphere to wipe-out what life might be left.

What I want to know is, who is going to go pump oil out of the ground when just being there is a death sentence, or is this bush’s twisted march-of-folly towards Armageddon?

These are the same fear mongers who kept pushing the minute hand closer to midnight as Reagan, Thatcher and the Pope faced evil with strength and freed several hundred million people from the tyranny and oppression of the Soviet Union.

When I stop seeing those “aren’t you worried enough about your credit score ads” I’ll know doomsday has arrived.

The big doomsday clock is at the White House and nobody care !