Scientists at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists who oversee the doomsday clock, which charts our proximity to catastrophic destruction, have decided to keep the clock at its closest point to midnight (or destruction of human civilisation) since the height of the Cold War. Climate change and the warming of the planet weighed heavily on the decision to keep the clock at three minutes to midnight.
While there is undoubtedly some cause for concern and we find ourselves facing many challenges, human kind has long been on the brink of disaster. Since the beginning of life on Earth, people have dealt with ecological and man-made disasters of all shapes and sizes. And we remain here today.
We have solved problems in the past, we have overcome all types of natural disasters and negotiated ends to conflicts and bloodshed. Even if the clock is ticking close to midnight, there is nothing to suggest we cannot pull ourselves back from the brink.
