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This certainly is a grim state of affairs, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sends a clear message: With all these factors and various others, ‘ the world remains stuck in an extremely dangerous moment’, which is why we find ourselves closer to doom. In order to come out of this pandemic, the international community must work together in an equitable fashion, which unfortunately, has not been the case. A large part of this has to do with vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, and discrepancies in equal distribution. Of course, as it has been with seemingly everything, the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the future of our world as well.
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Part of the determination that the world is so close to destruction is the fact that we are nowhere near the level of reduction in greenhouse gas emission required to sustain our planet, both in the short and long term. It also highlights the fact that the threats posed by climate change are very real. For example, increasing international tensions between major superpowers, coupled with rapid advancements in the development of nuclear weapons make the outbreak of a massive nuclear war that much more imminent. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cites the various reasons causing the world to seemingly be so close to its destruction. Now, on 20 January 2022, we find ourselves in dangerously worse shape, as it was announced, ‘At dooms doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight’. In 2015, the Science and Security Board determined that the world was three minutes away from Doomsday. The hope is that through this imagery, awareness and a sense of urgency will come about, thus putting pressure on world leaders to make the necessary changes in order to preserve our world and existence. With midnight representing the apocalypse, every year, the organisation’s Science and Security Board determines how close the clock’s hands will be to midnight, based on the current situation of the world. The purpose of this clock is to signify the world’s vulnerability to nuclear threats, climate change, and other emerging threats. The Doomsday Clock was established in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, an organisation founded by Albert Einstein and a group scientists from Chicago who played a role in building the first nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project. Imagine someone told you that existence as we know it will end in 100 seconds.Īccording to the Doomsday Clock, that’s all the time we have left.