2025 Doomsday Clock Statement issued

may be heading for the second coming of Christ not his dad??
 

HermitHogan said:
We can't do anything about it when the only thing that matters is money. Russia's invasion of Ukraine was (IMO) all about stealing their natural resources.
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We the majority of the people only have one weapon to fight the Oligarchs in the world. And that is money too. Remember where rich people get their money. From selling their goods to the rest of us. If enough middle class people would stop buying anything they don't absolutely need they would be forced to lower prices. This is why some corporations bought up the rights to the things we absolutely can not live without. Food, water, medicine, etc. Guess who has control of a huge percentage of that...

Bayer

HermitHogan said:
The U.S. wants to clear Palestinians out of Gaza and build a giant resort on the Mediterranean. China is extracting natural resources from Africa without benefitting the host countries. Actually, they're saddling them with tremendous debt.
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Actually, "The U.S.", that's us, doesn't want to do that. Without getting political or favoring one side over another, because all political parties are guilty of this in my opinion, a few clueless Politicians and some of their rich friends are saying that and a huge amount of other nonsense as a distraction from what they're really doing.

HermitHogan said:
The world depends on the U.S., Russia, and China to do the right thing. Okay... and I have some oceanfront property here in Colorado for sale.
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Yeah, and I have a bridge for sale that will take you right to it. :cool:
 

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One thing Covid taught me is not to underestimate Mother Nature. She may yet straighten out her planet with a bigger and better pandemic that will cut the population in half along with said population's capacity to use resources and create destructive gasses.

Look what the bird flu has done for egg consumption! Maybe a truly bad version of mad cow disease would stop us from eating beef and that would do wonders for the planet.

A giant asteroid would be helpful, too.
 
Well, without specifics, the next four years will be a bit of madness. Then it will take 8 years to return to normality. So that's 12 years accounted for.

Eventually, Earth ends. We don't have to do anything to make this happen, the Sun will take care of that. Earth is approx 4 billion years old right now. We have approx 1 billion left before we're destroyed by physics. We shall move beyond, or be destroyed forever. Forget fossils. Forget monuments. It'll all be returned to constituent atoms.
 
VaughanJB said:
Eventually, Earth ends. We don't have to do anything to make this happen, the Sun will take care of that. Earth is approx 4 billion years old right now. We have approx 1 billion left before we're destroyed by physics. We shall move beyond, or be destroyed forever. Forget fossils. Forget monuments. It'll all be returned to constituent atoms.
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Yes of course, but I am more concerned about the immediate future for my grandchildren and their progeny, say through the next 75 years.
 
Mike said:
Many places are past midnight, already!

Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, The West Bank, Syria, these
are the main ones, that I know about, but there are
others, that don't make the press.

Very sad.

Mike.
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spectratg said:
Yes of course, but I am more concerned about the immediate future for my grandchildren and their progeny, say through the next 75 years.
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They'll be fine. They may have to make some adaptations for climate change but basically they'll be fine.
 
The threat of nuclear war has been hanging over our heads for 80 years.

The world was supposed to end with Y2k and 2012.

We were supposed to be out of fossil fuels by now.

There was supposed to be widespread famine by now.

No forests because of acid rain.

Massive hole in the ozone -- remember that one?

A plague was supposed to kill millions of us (whoops, that really happened)

Forgive me if I yawn about the "Doomsday Clock" or "Doomsday Crock." (which began at seven minutes to midnight in 1947)
 
spectratg said:
Yes of course, but I am more concerned about the immediate future for my grandchildren and their progeny, say through the next 75 years.
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And that is truly honorable. Far too many people don't think of such things, or when they do only think in terms of money. If only we (as a generation) had cared more about the footprint we leave for the extended future. Too often we don't care about things is we, personally, won't benefit. Ensuring a benefit that won't come to fruition in three generations is beyond the horizon, so we ignore it.

So called Global Warming, plastics, and even some of behaviors that have become normalized, along with laws passed, aren't going to change to a great degree in the time members of this board have left, let's be honest. But for the extended future? It could be massive.
 
VaughanJB said:
Well, without specifics, the next four years will be a bit of madness. Then it will take 8 years to return to normality. So that's 12 years accounted for.

Eventually, Earth ends. We don't have to do anything to make this happen, the Sun will take care of that. Earth is approx 4 billion years old right now. We have approx 1 billion left before we're destroyed by physics. We shall move beyond, or be destroyed forever. Forget fossils. Forget monuments. It'll all be returned to constituent atoms.
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Like you, I am not enamored with the wisdom of the human race. We have raped the planet and never looked back till it kicks us in the ass-terisk. Never before has any species had the capacity to destroy itself, and the entire planet, and that is a responsibility that is overshadowed by greed, lust for power, and ignorance. That's an ominous recipe.

Once the error of our ways comes to visit, we look to technology and scientists to swoop in with a plan to save the day. Maybe we can inject particles into the air to reflect some of the sun's rays. Maybe we can mass produce artificial plants that will gobble up CO2. Maybe biodegradable plastics will work out and catch on. Yes, the next 4 years will set us back, but hopefully it won't destroy us and the planet.
 
bobcat said:
Like you, I am not enamored with the wisdom of the human race. We have raped the planet and never looked back till it kicks us in the ass-terisk. Never before has any species had the capacity to destroy itself, and the entire planet, and that is a responsibility that is overshadowed by greed, lust for power, and ignorance. That's an ominous recipe.

Once the error of our ways comes to visit, we look to technology and scientists to swoop in with a plan to save the day. Maybe we can inject particles into the air to reflect some of the sun's rays. Maybe we can mass produce artificial plants that will gobble up CO2. Maybe biodegradable plastics will work out and catch on. Yes, the next 4 years will set us back, but hopefully it won't destroy us and the planet.
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Sadly, it is beyond us to leave the planet as we (as in a generation) found it. Nature will win. It won't wait for us. Ultimately we'll destroy ourselves before we destroy nature.
 
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Della said:
One thing Covid taught me is not to underestimate Mother Nature. She may yet straighten out her planet with a bigger and better pandemic that will cut the population in half along with said population's capacity to use resources and create destructive gasses.

Look what the bird flu has done for egg consumption! Maybe a truly bad version of mad cow disease would stop us from eating beef and that would do wonders for the planet.

A giant asteroid would be helpful, too.
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As so called food doomsday approaches...If eggs blew up in price due to bird flu...according to about 400 people posting pictures on a forum...why hasn't chicken breast/chicken products blown up in price.

I mean it took me about 30 secs to go to Walmart, costco, kroegers, piggly wiggly websites to find an astonishing thing. Eggs quadrupled in price some places, tripled in others, but breasts, thighs etc are the same?! How? Bird flu discriminates?! Nope, not infecting chicken meat production, just egg production! Lol!

Ridiculous. They can't even cover their lies properly.
 
Tazx said:
As so called food doomsday approaches...If eggs blew up in price due to bird flu...according to about 400 people posting pictures on a forum...why hasn't chicken breast/chicken products blown up in price.
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If you'd done a wee bit of research:
"It's all about the type of chicken. The chickens that produce eggs are not the same chickens that become wings, tenders, breasts, and drumsticks. The latter are known as broilers and are raised solely for meat production. It's egg-laying chickens that have been more widely impacted by the avian flu."
 
CallMeKate said:
If you'd done a wee bit of research:
"It's all about the type of chicken. The chickens that produce eggs are not the same chickens that become wings, tenders, breasts, and drumsticks. The latter are known as broilers and are raised solely for meat production. It's egg-laying chickens that have been more widely impacted by the avian flu."
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You're absolutely correct! Broilers & egg laying chickens are completely seperate breeds of chickens and are raised on seperate farms plus, egg laying chickens are more susceptible to the H5N1 virus whereas the Broilers not so much so Tazx was, in a sense, actually correct when he was trying to be facetious ... "Bird flu discriminates?! Nope, not infecting chicken meat production, just egg production!"
 
Rich said:
But think of the enormous profit that will be generated while we destroy ourselves...
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If we went to a non-profit system we would destroy ourselves just as quickly, if not even faster. At least capitalism rewards those who solve problems.
 

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