California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is now on the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group responsible for creating the Doomsday Clock to illustrate how close they think the world is to the apocalypse.
“I am honored to be stepping into this important role, particularly at this moment in time, when the Bulletin’s unique voice and depth of expertise is so clearly needed,” Brown said in an emailed press release.
“Huge investments in new weapons systems, the growing existential threat of climate change, and a general antipathy toward evidence-based policymaking are putting all of us at grave risk,” Brown said.
Brown will serve as the group’s executive chair, according to a release sent Thursday. Brown is known for his apocalyptic message on issues like man-made global warming, even referencing the doomsday clock in his 2018 State of the State address.
“Our world, our way of life, our system of governance — all are at immediate and genuine risk. Endless new weapons systems, growing antagonism among nations, the poison in our politics, climate change,” Brown warned Californians in January.
Brown’s recently risen to national prominence for challenging the Trump administration on policies ranging from immigration to energy. Brown’s vowed to implement the goals of the Paris climate accord and even suggested launching a climate satellite into space.
The governor is a favorite among many environmentalists, though there are those on the extreme left who attacked Brown for not immediately stopping oil and gas leases in California.
The Bulletin’s 2018 Doomsday Clock statement warned the world was “2 minutes to midnight” based on threats of nuclear war, global warming, and emerging technologies.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists only speaks fora tiny handful of total crack-pots their total’y political scientists they have no touch with reality they base everything on Junk Science and Politics
“Brown will serve as the group’s executive chair…..” – a ‘chair’ made by Kohler. (For non-US folks – Kohler make a line of bathroom fixtures) Appropriate for the material he comes out with…..
I’ll repeat what I have said in the past. For some unknown reason when I was an engineering student in the mid 1980’s I received a lot of mail from the Union of Concerned Scientist. They had a clock that was always getting closer to midnight but never got there. They wanted the US to unilateral abandon our nuclear weapons. Had we done so the resulting in balance of power would have been extremely dangerous and might have changed history.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is pretty much the same. It will always get closer to midnight be never get there. Like the other clock, if the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has its way, the results will be disastrous. We will be in energy poverty. Unemployment will be high. Long power outages will be daily occurrences.
It would not be possible maintain our high technology medical system. This is an issue for me since our medical technology recently saved my life after I got a bacterial infection of my blood.
5:00 pm here, Scotch O’clock! I can’t count how many evangelical dooms day apocalypses I’ve heard about since I was a kid in the ’60’s – none of them have transpired! Pour me a Scotch and let’s celebrate LIFE!
Oh, Geez!! Look at the time!!!
It’s almost 7pm.
A perfect job fora Crack-Pot Govenor with a group of Crack Pot Scientists fooling around with their silly Doomsday Clock now he can show to the rest of the world he is as nutty as they come