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Re:Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight by bjt2n3904 on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:06PM (#13493646)
IIRC, the Doomsday Clock was about nuclear war. If we're including "climate change", what other things should we include?
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Re:Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight by nagvx on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:16PM (#13493754)
>represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change,[4] and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

It has been this way for nearly a decade. It's also plausible that they are linked - climate change destroying natural resources (land, food, etc.) certainly has the potential to inflict political instability and conflict.

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