Repent, ye sinners, as the wise ones in charge of the
Doomsday Clock have pronounced us to be at 5 minutes
to
midnight yet again.
The clock, having not moved in a few years, and having
actually moved backward since the days of the Cold War,
is
clearly lacking in granularity.
What good
is it to know that it's 5 minutes to Doomsday
if
nothing ever changes until it's too late? At this rate,
might
as well call it 5 minutes to Doomsday because of the
potential 2036 asteroid hit, or the eventual absorption of
the Earth by the expanding Sun, or the arrival of aliens.
How much more interesting is the US National Debt clock
--
that's at least moving every millisecond. But, that also
has
a flaw in that it takes like months to move a number on
the left. We need something more in the now.
Announcing the real-time Doomsday Movement clock,
that
is showing you how everyday decisions that you and
those
around you make tick the Doomsday clock forward or
backward.
TBD: is actually checking the clock on your phone ticking
it
forward? Probably.