You can prevent a clock from checking, but it is much more difficult to understand how to stop the relentless walking of humanity towards self-nihilation.
The guards of the metaphorical clock of the day have now determined that we are closer than ever of the disaster, and they have advanced the second hand of a tick.
It is now 89 seconds from midnight, alias “doomsday”.
The clock has been set by a panel of world leaders in nuclear risks, climate change and disturbing technologies in the context of the non -profit organization The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
“By adjusting the clock for a second closer to midnight, we send a raw signal: because the world is already dangerously close to the precipice, a single second decision should be considered the second delay in the inversion of the course increases The probability of a global disaster, “the panel wrote in a press release.
“Continue blindly on the current path is a form of madness,” they add.
And yet …
The Doomsday clock was created for the first time by a group formed by scientists from the Manhattan project in 1947, who did not want atomic weapons used against people. All these decades ago, the clock was set at 7 minutes at midnight.
In 1949, the threat of nuclear war had accelerated considerably, carrying the hand of the clock in the three ticks of 12 years. In 1991, with the Cold War officially, the chronometer returned to 11:43 p.m.
The respite did not last long.
Since the beginning of the century, international conflicts, climate change and disease have pushed the hands of the clock more and more than 12.
In 2024, the world took a particularly dark turn. Last year was the hottest year in the world and the first calendar year during which global temperatures exceeded 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels.
In addition, the war in Ukraine entered its third year, war and conflicts in the Middle East increased, and countries with nuclear weapons have invested billions in the enlargement of their destructive arsenals of civilization.
To top it all, the highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) has spread to many regions of the world, and has started to infect farm, dairy and even humans, creating “the possibility of a pandemic devastating human, “warns the panel of the bulletin.
As if that were not enough to face, the panel maintains that all these threats are “very exacerbated” by the spread of theories of disinformation and conspiracy. They say that the progress of AI only makes it more difficult to detect the truth of lies, embraced leaders who dismiss science and human rights.
“The United States, China and Russia have the collective power to destroy civilization,” says the panel.
“These three countries have the main responsibility to withdraw the world from the edge, and they can do it if their leaders are seriously starting discussions on the good leak in global threats described here.”
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Some, like cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, think that the Doomsday clock is a political blow, and others have criticized the apparently arbitrary way in the way the clock is defined.
“I do not think that the use of apocalyptic rhetoric helps us to do the hard work to discuss difficult and complicated questions in a democracy,” Tia Ghose from the University of Oklahoma told Tia Ghose.
But Pandora also admitted that the in-depth reports published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists were useful when it comes to stimulating the conversation, and the organization itself said that its objective was not to inspire fear But to inspire the action.
“There is still time to make the right choices to return the hands of the Doomsday clock,” said Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and the Nobel Peace Prize winner, during the recent Bulletin Press Conference .
“In Colombia, we say:” Cada Segunda Cuenta “- every second account. Use each wisely.”