“To encourage us to think about the unthinkable, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets a Doomsday Clock, showing how close humanity is (in metaphorical minutes and seconds) to the “midnight” of the apocalypse (nuclear or otherwise) and human extinction.
California may now need its own Independence Clock, showing how close we are to that seemingly unthinkable moment when our state has no choice but to depart the U.S. and become an independent nation.
That prospect recently drew unmistakably closer, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
