Clock moves one minute closer.
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol to represent nuclear danger, has moved one minute closer to midnight from last Tuesday. This now makes the clock 5 minutes to midnight. The clock, created in 1947, has been said it moved forward due the nuclear weapons in many countries, particularly in the Far East. Although Russia’s nuclear problems are improving, in places such as the US, China, Egypt, Iran and Pakistan have not met the guidelines. Furthermore, North Korea has not stopped producing nuclear weapons which continues to put the world at risk.
In addition, they also have blamed Global climate change. Atomic scientists have said that they need countries to agree to reduce carbon emissions and to invest in more renewable energy sources. They have also said that soon if we do not change our ways, there will become a point in which we cannot resolve the Earth’s atmosphere. This would become a massive problem as if the atmosphere is too warm, ice caps will melt and sea levels will rise. If the sea levels rise, it will increase the change of places having floods, a lot more drastic and serious ones too. This will make places with flat land eventually go under the water altogether, damaging animals’ habitats- and ours.
Also, the Japanese tsunami was also to blame for the high nuclear energy in the world, as it hit the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing dangerous leaks across Japan, heading towards the capital, Tokyo. The last time the clock was changed was in 2010, when it was taken back 1 minute, but it now got moved back again by a conference in Washington DC.
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