100 seconds to midnight: Why we’re closer to Doomsday than ever
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100 seconds to midnight: Why we're closer to Doomsday than ever
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a non-profit group dedicated to monitoring the potential for global catastrophe, last night set the Doomsday Clock forward. We're now 100 seconds away from midnight.
As Douglas Adams was fond of writing: don't panic. This doesn't literally mean we'll all be dead in the next minute-and-a-half. As the Bulletin puts it:
The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.
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As far as metaphors go, it's the ultimate reminder that we're on the brink of irrevocably destroying our species and its habitat. The fact that we're now closer than ever to midnight – Doomsday - indicates that time is running out. Basically, as a species, we've reached the point of no return, and we can't afford to make any more mistakes.
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So what's the real danger?
The Bulletin, whose advisory board contains 13 Nobel laureates, says:
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