When I woke up in the morning, I saw a somewhat frightening news!
On January 23, the hands of the Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how far humanity is from a global catastrophe, remained 90 seconds before midnight, the same as last year and the closest to midnight in its more than 70-year history.
The reason why this is a frightening news is not alarmist or unfounded, but the content reported by this news is very authoritative and clear!
Many of my friends have the same doubts as me, what is the "Doomsday Clock"? I looked up the origin of the "Doomsday Clock" on the Internet, and shared it with you, let's find out together.
In 1945, a group of American scientists involved in the development of the world's first atomic bomb, along with 17 Nobel laureates, co-founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which set up a fictitious clock face on the campus of the University of Chicago in 1947 to indicate the extent to which the world was threatened by nuclear weapons. The current 90 seconds is the highest level of danger ever reported to humanity since the clock was inaugurated.
From the above information, we know the authority of this news. He is not the result of anecdotal rumors, but every year experts from the Science and Safety Committee of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which currently includes nine Nobel laureates, discuss the state of the world and assess how much time is left in the countdown.
At the beginning of its establishment, the participants of this organization even included scientists who participated in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, including Albert Einstein, Oppenheimer and others.
Judging from this information, the Doomsday Clock is to warn the world that the time of the catastrophe facing mankind is getting farther and closer, and also to warn the world to be kind to its own living environment, face up to the problems that exist in the progress and development of mankind, and not lead yourself to a point of no return, especially the nuclear threat!
I also looked up the world doomsday clock on the Internet, and since its establishment, the adjustment of the second hand of the clock and watch, on the whole, is not optimistic, or maybe a little pessimistic.
In 1947, the organization introduced the Doomsday Clock to measure the likelihood of humanity causing self-destruction, with seven minutes left before the end of the world. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, the "Doomsday Clock" was extended to 17 minutes at most. However, due to the drastic changes in the world over the past few years, the reciprocal unit has changed from "minutes" to "seconds", with 100 seconds left from 2020 to 2022 and 90 seconds last year. This year, it continues to be at 90 seconds, but Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, says that this year, just because the hands are not moving does not mean that the world is still stable!
In the past two years, there has been a threat of nuclear escalation in conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israeli-Kazakhstan war, climate change has caused death and destruction, and disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and biological research are also at risk of getting out of control.
Of course, what we need to face up to is the risks that the world may face in development, and it does not mean that the end of the world will really come soon, what we need to do is how to resolve the risks and solve the problems!
2024 has arrived, I hope that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will end as soon as possible, the chaos in the Middle East will return to peace as soon as possible, the US election, don't elect a crazy president, artificial intelligence, metaverse, etc. should introduce more regulatory measures as soon as possible, as long as human beings face up to these problems and actively solve these problems, I think our future world will be better and better!
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