Humanity has one minute and 40 seconds left until the end of the world. At least symbolically. The so-called ‘doomsday clock’ has been marking the time that we need for the end for 75 years of our species. A committee of scientists assesses whether we are solving the threats that place us perilously close to the end.
“Is humanity safer or at serious risk this year?” said Rachel Bronson, director of the committee. This year, the hands have not moved. And beware, that it remains the same is not good news. This ‘cursed’ watch was born in 1947 to warn of a possible nuclear war, and at that time it placed us seven minutes from the end.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, tensions eased and, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in 1991, the hands got to move away to 17 minutes. However, since 2007 the climate emergency has brought the end closer and closer. “The measures are not enough to achieve the decarbonization of the world economy,” criticized Raymond Pierrehumbert, professor of Physics. There is no time to lose.
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