Fear for the Future

Doomsday Clock frozen at two minutes to apocalypse - BBC
BBC World News reports: "The 'new abnormal' the world is facing from risks like nuclear war and climate change has led the symbolic Doomsday Clock to be frozen at the closest it has ever been to midnight. The clock, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in 1947, intends to warn of impending disasters. Its 2019 setting was announced on Thursday - staying in the same perilous position it was set at last year. The BAS has warned we are 'normalising a very dangerous world'. It marks only the third year the clock has been so close to midnight - first reaching the position in 1953 after the US and the Soviet Union tested highly destructive hydrogen bombs. [...] The group cites nuclear weapons and climate change as the two major ongoing threats to mankind - and warned their risks were being "exacerbated" by the 'increased use of information warfare to undermine democracy around the world'."

Comment: I know that there will be some who will call this "fake news" but I think it's important to remember that this is an old group made up of professionals who take a long-term view. They are not highlighting short-term political or partisan issues, they look at long-term threats to civilization. When we talk about people being afraid and apprehensive about the things coming upon the world nuclear war and climate change are at the top of the list.