Some of the world's leading scientists will announce today just how close humanity is to extinction as the Doomsday Clock's new time is unveiled.
How close are we to the end of the world?
The clock was designed to represent how high the threat is of a global catastrophe, and act as a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.The closer to midnight the clock moves… the closer to annihilation humanity is according to scientists. As of 2007, it also takes climate change into consideration and has become a way to assess the general health of the planet on an annual basis.
‘Movements of the clock can – and should – help focus the mind. Yet this can feel like an abstract way of capturing the very real dangers facing the world. Experts and scientists fear the planet has been moving ever close to disaster 1991, when the clock was shifted to 17 minutes to midnight at the end of the Cold War.
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