The final judgment clock has been closer than ever midnight (the annihilation point) since the afternoon of Tuesday, 28, according to an international panel of scientists responsible for the alert. The clock was adjusted to less than two minutes to midnight because of the threats imposed by the invasion of Ukraine, the climate crisis, among others. It is the closest to the final judgment that we have been in 78 years.
Scientists adjusted the clock for 89 seconds to midnight-a second closer to the potential global catastrophe that would end the planet than last year-in the face of unprecedented crises faced today by humanity. The NGO responsible for the clock was created in 1947 during the tensions imposed by the Cold War as a way to warn how close to humanity would be of total annihilation.
“The facts behind this year’s decision – nuclear risk, climate change, the harmful use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence – not last year’s news,” said Daniel Holz of the NGO. “But we had insufficient progress in dealing with these challenges. In many cases, they are leading to increasingly negative and worrying consequences. Adjusting the clock for 89 seconds for midnight is an alert to all world leaders. ”
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The invasion of Ukraine through Russia is the bloodiest conflict to unfold in Europe since World War II. “It follows as a great source of nuclear risk,” said Holz. “This conflict can scale to include nuclear weapons at any time because of a harsher decision, an accident or even a calculation error.”
The Middle East is another source of instability with the Israeli war with Hamas. On Monday, 27, Israel began to allow Palestinians to return north of the Gaza Strip for the first time since the first weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, according to a fragile ceasefire. It also weighs on the final judgment of hostilities involving other countries in the region, such as Iran.
The climate crisis is also getting worse. Last year was the hottest of the historical record according to scientists from the world weather organization. The last decade has also been the top ten years – scientists have argued whether global warming is getting faster than it was predicted before.
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“Although there has been surprising growth in the use of solar and wind energy, the world is not yet being able to do what is needed to prevent the worst consequences of global warming,” said Holz.
