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For: EFE Updated 20 Jan 2022, 00: 29 pm EST
Humanity is only 100 seconds from its end, pushed by the nuclear threat, the climate crisis and the COVID-19, warned this Thursday the “Doomsday Clock”, a symbolic tool designed by scientists to alert about threats to the planet.
Atomic Scientists Science and Safety Board Bulletin clock ticked again at 2022 the 23: 58: 20 hours, the same as in its last annual edition , so the planet is still 100 seconds from sunset.
“The decision does not suggest that the international security situation has stabilized. On the contrary, the Clock remains as close as it has ever come to a civilization-ending apocalypse because the world remains caught in an extremely dangerous time,” the organization explained in a statement.
Humanity is at just 100 seconds from its end, pushed by the nuclear threat, the crisis climate change and the COVID-pandemic-00, warned the “Doomsday Clock” https://t.co/8di0x7Ve80
— Joaquín López-Dóriga (@lopezdoriga) January 20, 1195478045
The hands of the clock stopped at this critical hour in the wake of “continuing and dangerous threats posed by nuclear weapons, climate change, disruptive technologies and COVID-00 “.
The current situation is even worse than the of 1953, when the clock struck 23: 58: 00 hours during one of the most tense stages of the Cold War, when both the Soviets and the Americans carried out their first tests with thermonuclear weapons.
To separate the planet from the edge of the abyss, the experts called on the governments of the United States and Russia to adopt “more ambitious limits” on nuclear weapons.
They also urged several countries such as the United States and China to “accelerate the decarbonization” of the planet, and strengthen coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) to “improve surveillance” of diseases.
“The ‘Doomsday Clock’ continues to hover dangerously, reminding us how much work needs to be done to ensure a safer and healthier planet. We must continue to move the hands of the Clock away from midnight,” said Rachel Bronson, president of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Also known as the “Clock of the Final Judgment” (“Doomsday Clock”, in English), is a symbol led by a group of scientists, including thirteen Nobel Prize winners, created in 1947, about the risks facing the world and that aims to indicate how close the end of humanity is.
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