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[Disarmo] Fwd: It is still 2 minutes to midnight


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From: angelo baracca <angelo.baracca at gmail.com>
Date: gio 24 gen 2019, 18:34
Subject: Fwd: It is still 2 minutes to midnight
To: Icanitalia <icanitalia at googlegroups.com>, disarmisti esigenti <disarmisti-esigenti at googlegroups.com>, jo lau <jlau at inwind.it>, Comitato Fermiamolaguerra <comitato-fermiamolaguerra at googlegroups.com>


Non è un sospiro di sollievo, tutt'altro. Perché si dice molto chiaramente -- e non poteva essere che così -- che la situazione, le due minacce capitali sono state <<exacerbated this past year by the increased use of information warfare to undermine democracy around the world, amplifying risk from these and other threats and putting the future of civilization in extraordinary danger>>.
Se la banda di folli criminali che ha nelle sue mani il destino del mondo si ostina a non ascoltare e a portarci verso l'abisso, non sarebbe certo l'ulteriore avvicinamento alla Mezzanotte che li potrebbe far rinsavire, poiché sono servi di ben altri interessi.
È la gente del mondo che dovrebbe imporre una inversione.
Saluti
Angelo


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From: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists <newsletter at thebulletin.org>
Date: gio 24 gen 2019 alle ore 18:22
Subject: It is still 2 minutes to midnight
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A New Abnormal

To: Leaders and citizens of the world
Re: A new abnormal: It is still two minutes to
       midnight
Date: January 24, 2019

Humanity now faces two simultaneous existential threats, either of which would be cause for extreme concern and immediate attention. These major threats—nuclear weapons and climate change—were exacerbated this past year by the increased use of information warfare to undermine democracy around the world, amplifying risk from these and other threats and putting the future of civilization in extraordinary danger.

In the nuclear realm, the United States abandoned the Iran nuclear deal and announced it would withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), grave steps towards a complete dismantlement of the global arms control process. Although the United States and North Korea moved away from the bellicose rhetoric of 2017, the urgent North Korean nuclear dilemma remains unresolved. Meanwhile, the world’s nuclear nations proceeded with programs of “nuclear modernization” that are all but indistinguishable from a worldwide arms race, and the military doctrines of Russia and the United States have increasingly eroded the long-held taboo against the use of nuclear weapons.

On the climate change front, global carbon dioxide emissions—which seemed to plateau earlier this decade—resumed an upward climb in 2017 and 2018. To halt the worst effects of climate change, the countries of the world must cut net worldwide carbon dioxide emissions to zero by well before the end of the century. By such a measure, the world community failed dismally last year...

Read more from the 2019 Doomsday Clock Statement

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