Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News
/ The Doomsday Clock symbolising how near humanity is to destruction has been moved one second forward to 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) – which sets the clock annually – said nuclear threats, potential misuses of advances in biology and artificial intelligence, as well as climate change, were the key factors.
Daniel Holz, chair of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, said the latest move was “a warning to all world leaders”.
The clock was originally placed at seven minutes to midnight in 1947. Last year, it was left unchanged at 90 seconds.
In Tuesday’s statement, the BAS – a Chicago-based non-profit organisation – said: “In setting the clock one second closer to midnight, we send a stark signal.
“Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.”
It warned that the continuing war in Ukraine – now nearing a three-year mark since Russia’s full-scale invasion – “could become nuclear at any moment because of a rash decision or through accident or miscalculation”.
“Conflict in the Middle East threatens to spiral out of control into a wider war without warning,” the statement said.
The panel of scientists also said that “the long-term prognosis for the world’s attempts to deal with climate change remains poor, as most governments fail to enact the financing and policy initiatives necessary to halt global warming.”
In the biological arena, the BAS continued, “emerging and re-emerging diseases continue to threaten the economy, society and security of the world”.
It also warned that “an array of other disruptive technologies advanced last year in ways that make the world more dangerous”.
“Systems that incorporate artificial intelligence in military targeting have been used in Ukraine and the Middle East, and several countries are moving to integrate artificial intelligence into their militaries.”
The organisation stressed that all these dangers “are greatly exacerbated by a potent threat multiplier: the spread of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories that degrade the communication ecosystem and increasingly blur the line between truth and falsehood”.
The US, China and Russia, the BAS said, “have the collective power to destroy civilisation”, adding that the three nations “have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink”. /
Below you will find an excerpt from my book “Power your TimeZone”, which explains what time really is.
Who invented the time, and do we really need it?
“Christiaan Huygens is usually credited as the inventor. He determined the mathematical formula that related pendulum length to time (about 99.4 cm or 39.1 inches for the one second movement) and had the first pendulum-driven clock made. The first model clock was built in 1657 in the Hague”.
“The measurement of time began with the invention of sundials in ancient Egypt some time prior to 1500 B.C. However, the time the Egyptians measured was not the same as the time today’s clocks measure. For the Egyptians, and indeed for a further three millennia, the basic unit of time was the period of daylight”.
For me, all this sounds complicated, in the end it´´s your life and you must take control of your time.
The average person accepts that time rules his life! And will follow the timelines that mostly are decided by law in its country! But remember that the country does not make people! People makes a country! You are the people! Do not allow others rule your mind!
All you really need to know regarding time is how to divide it into your own Time-Zones and you will be free to use it as you decided.
First you need to power your understanding of your time! Who is controlling your time? Your work, your favorite television program, your friends, your dog, or your government ……?
Are you loosing time, for good or bad?
Take a deep breath, at this moment, and count backwards, 5-4-3-2-1, now let the air out! Now, it’s up to you how you feel about these seconds. You may have lost 5 seconds, but you can also have learned something about using them, only by feeling the importance of breathing.
Maybe you find this article a bit strange? What I want to emphasize is that the so-called Doomsday is still just a scientific calculation, which has no direct significance other than a reminder.
Thanks for reading my post.
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