Will
America’s Corruption End on a Ventilator or in a
Mushroom Cloud?
A political system that is structurally incapable of
acting for the common good, even when millions of
lives are at stake, is not just failing to solve our
problems. It is the problem.
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
April 22, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Little
by little,
Americans are understanding just how badly our
government has let us down by its belated and
disastrous
response to the
Covid-19 pandemic, and how thousands more people are
dying as a result. But there are two other crises we
face that our government is totally unprepared for
and incapable of dealing with: the climate crisis
and the danger of nuclear war.
Since
1947, a group of scientists with the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
have warned us about the danger of nuclear war—using
their
Doomsday Clock to
symbolize just how close we are to destroying human
civilization on Earth. Over the years, the minute
hand on the clock has gone back and forth, measuring
the rising and falling risks.
Unbeknownst to most Americans, in January 2020, just
before the Covid-19 crisis broke, the Atomic
Scientists, who include 13 Nobel Prize winners and
dozens of scientists and other experts, sounded the
alarm that the double risks of nuclear war and
climate change have now brought us closer to
self-destruction than at the most dangerous moments
of the Cold War. For the first time ever, they moved
the hands of the Doomsday Clock beyond the 2-minute
mark to
100 seconds to midnight.
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