![]() "We are not saying it is too late to take action but the window for action is closing rapidly," Kennette Benedict, executive director of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said in a news conference this morning in Washington, D.C. Each year, the magazine's board analyzes threats to humanity's survival to decide where the Doomsday Clock's hands should be set.Įxperts on the board said they felt a sense of urgency this year because of the world's ongoing addiction to fossil fuels, procrastination with enacting laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow efforts to get rid of nuclear weapons. Rather, the clock is a visual metaphor to warn the public about how close the world is to a potentially civilization-ending catastrophe. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists doesn't use the clock to make any real doomsday predictions. It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years since 2012, the clock had been fixed at 5 minutes to symbolic doom, midnight. 22) to push the minute hand of their iconic "Doomsday Clock" to 11:57 p.m. ![]() Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals, they decided today (Jan. That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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