“Leaders and citizens of the world. Here’s your call to wake up COVID: it’s a hundred seconds by midnight. “
That’s the warning scientists gave Wednesday morning, stating that the 2021 Doomsday clock, an image of perceived threats to the planet, is at a record close of 100 seconds at midnight.
By 2020, the clock hands have gone from two minutes to a hundred seconds, closest to a symbolic catastrophe. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Wednesday that it remained in the same location in the annual update, calling the COVID-19 pandemic. a call for attention. “
“The pandemic has revealed how countries and the foreign formula are un prepared and unwilling to adequately manage global emergencies,” the organization said. “In this time of genuine crisis, governments have also abdicated their responsibilities, ignored clinical councils, failed to cooperate or have not spoken well, and, as a result, failed to protect the fitness and well-being of their citizens.
The organization said the science and spread of conspiracy theories, occasionally through political figures and party leaders, would only continue to undermine the ability to protect others from long-term threats.
Although deadly, the coronavirus pandemic is not actually an existential risk to humanity; on the contrary, the organization is more involved in accelerating nuclear weapons programs, worsening climate and even more devastating long-term imaginable pandemics.
“We still think that humans can manage the risks posed by fashion technology, even in times of crisis,” the organization said. “But if humanity wants to avoid existential disaster, which would overshadow everything it has noticed so far, national leaders will. “”We need to do a much greater task to counter misinformation, take science into account, and cooperate to reduce global risks. “
The Non-Profit Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, founded in the 1940s by Albert Einstein and scientists at the University of Chicago after the progression of atomic weapons, over the past decade, its Doomsday clock has slowly approached the midnight, symbolizing the growing threat of an Apocalypse ending civilization.
The organization says it sees some explanation as to why to be positive for next year, adding that President Joe Biden’s plans to aggressively combat climate change, but suggested world leaders do more to reduce carbon emissions and permanently risk nuclear weapons.