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The closer the \u201ctime\u201d is to midnight, the closer we are to \u201cdoomsday\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the scientists first set the clock, we were seven minutes from midnight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, at the end of 2019, it is 11:58. We are two minutes from midnight, a mere two notches away from an unprecedented cataclysm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The clock has been set backwards and forwards 23 times in its 72 year history. Many of us have lived most of our lives within a few minutes of midnight; we have always walked with the burden of understanding that one or two moments, whether they are bad decisions on the part of policy makers, or failures to heed the warnings of climate scientists, are all that separate us from complete societal or environmental breakdown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when we read this chapter of Isaiah, which describes a joyful, messianic time full of growth and healing, perhaps we cannot even imagine the lightness of spirit this chapter shows us. The desert suddenly in bloom? Abundant water bursting forth from parched land? People able to travel in peace and safety? The descriptions of physical healing are, for many in the disability community, a disturbing white-washing of physical diversity. In this context, however, we can read them as a desire for humanity to be free of the physical and emotional suffering that comes from living under great duress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As more countries experience catastrophic climate change, and as this change forces more people to seek safety and security in foreign lands, Isaiah\u2019s vision begins to feel absurd.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which is exactly why we need to read this chapter. The scientists of the Doomsday Clock recently labeled our time \u201cthe new abnormal\u201d, warning us not to get too comfortable with this existence on the precipice of disaster. We have been here so long that we might forget how close we are to losing the world as we know it. We must not get comfortable here, but rather set our sights far away from midnight, on a time when we can see a light on the horizon and feel hope and joy. 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