The Doomsday Clock vs Bill Gates!!! Who Is Right? Which Source Is the Most Accurate? Can Humanity Be On the Brink of Collapse Today, While Offering A Great Future to Those Still Unborn? episode artwork

EPISODE · Jan 26, 2023 · 28 MIN

The Doomsday Clock vs Bill Gates!!! Who Is Right? Which Source Is the Most Accurate? Can Humanity Be On the Brink of Collapse Today, While Offering A Great Future to Those Still Unborn?

from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "The world is closer to catastrophe than ever: the Doomsday Clock, the metaphorical measure of challenges to humanity, was reset to 90 seconds before midnight on Tuesday. The science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said the move — the closest to widespread calamity humanity has ever been judged to be — was "largely, though not exclusively" due to the war in Ukraine." This paragraph comes from NPR.org in an article titled: "The Doomsday Clock moves to 90 seconds to midnight, signaling more peril than ever."  The article is written by Bill Chappell.  You can read the full article here: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/24/1150982819/doomsday-clock-90-seconds-to-midnight A Second Best Paragraph I've Read: "Even with challenges facing current and future generations, Gates says anyone born in the next few decades will be better off than people born at any previous point in history. I’m still very optimistic that it’d be much better to be born 20 years from now, 40 years from now, 60 years from now than any time in the past,” Gates said Monday in an interview at the Lowy Institute, a think tank in Sydney, Australia." This paragraph comes from CNBC.com in an article titled: "Bill Gates is 'very optimistic' about the future: 'Better to be born 20 years from now than any time in the past.'  You can read the full article here: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/bill-gates-is-very-optimistic-about-future-of-earth-humanity.html Zac and Don talk about the recent change to the Doomsday Clock and Bill Gate's prediction.  They wonder which source is more accurate.  They also discuss whether there is anything an individual can do when they hear of such large and dramatic predictions.

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