This is the first time that the clock moved within three years; in 2012, the clock was set at 5 minutes to the symbolic death, midnight.
Hours visual metaphor to warn the public about how close the world to potentially civilization ends in disaster. Each year, the board of the magazine examines threats to the survival of mankind, to decide where the hands Doomsday Clock must be installed.
Experts felt a sense of urgency this year because of the world by continuing dependence on fossil fuels, delaying the adoption of laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow efforts to get rid of nuclear weapons.
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Valfredo Velasko
It is true,I agree and fill scary . . . for this people living in one community or mankind living on earth must realize., . . . whenever there are people there is a risk . . . like a building without living inside or using this edifice there is no any danger of fire incident or a vehicle does not moving will not produce smoke of carbon fossils.
New
but this whole clock thing is kind of childish. Nobody has a clue when the end will come. And if you think you do, go put on a The End Is Near sandwich board and march up and down the sidewalks with all the rest of the "prophets."
Orville Boutilier
Nobody cares. Get back to us when a bomb goes off or when the Earth can't sustain us anymore. That should only take a few more years. We'll wait, right? Whatever.