One HUNDRED seconds to the end of the world. The clock of the Apocalypse has moved forward: there are a little over a minute to midnight, and the catastrophe. The cause is attributed to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, which reached record levels. Scientists and former u.s. officials have come to the point of defining the environment “is deeply unstable,” a situation that “campaigns of cyber misinformation” and fake news worse, by preventing the people to react, to make progress, to change, to be aware of.
Clock of the apocalypse (Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, at the beginning of the cold war, by the scientists of the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, and measure the danger of a hypothetical end of the world to which humanity is subjected ( Timeline of the year for the year ).
Now, the Bulletin announced that the hands have never been so close to the end point. You are approached at other times in its history, coming in two minutes last year in this same period, but have never been so close. The maximum distance from midnight was 17 minutes, recorded at the end of the cold war (download the official press release PDF).
“it’s Not about the hours, minutes, but of seconds,” said Rachel Bronson , president and Ceo of the Bulletin. “A true emergency, we find ourselves in a state is absolutely unacceptable in world affairs that has eliminated any margin of error or the possibility of further delays.”
“we Now face a real emergency – a state is absolutely unacceptable in world affairs that has eliminated any margin of error or further delays,” he added.
