{"id":121903,"date":"2023-12-09T10:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=121903"},"modified":"2023-12-09T10:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T10:59:19","slug":"world-catastrophe-looms-in-2024-as-doomsday-clock-edges-closer-to-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/world-catastrophe-looms-in-2024-as-doomsday-clock-edges-closer-to-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"‘World catastrophe looms’ in 2024 as Doomsday Clock edges closer to midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A \u2018clock\u2019 run by scientists to indicate how close humanity is to catastrophe has edged ever closer to midnight – the closest it\u2019s ever been, despite living through 1947 after the Manhattan Project led to the rapid development of nuclear bombs.<\/p>\n

Those behind the Doomsday Clock say several factors have contributed to this decision – including geopolitical tensions like the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the global man-made climate crisis, and weapons of mass destruction, reports the Mirror.<\/p>\n

When the clock – run by Chicago-based non-profit organisation the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – hits midnight, it will indicate the point at which Earth has become uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

However, CEO Rachel Bronson points out that: \u201cWe never really want to get there and we won\u2019t know it when we do\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Science and Security Board confirmed the world had entered \u201ca time of unprecedented danger\u201d. It also said a significant individual risk is the \u201cexceedingly\u201d dangerous nuclear situation arising from Russia\u2019s military campaign in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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If the clock is to be believed then it is likely we will see many more dangerous events stemming from man-made climate change.<\/p>\n

Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as powerful storms, hurricanes, extreme cold snaps and heatwaves – and is caused predominantly by the burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of nature.<\/p>\n

Hurricane Otis in Mexico, for example, caused close to a hundred deaths and possibly $17 billion of economic damage, in October, while unusually powerful rainfall burst dams and essentially flattened huge swathes of the Libyan city of Derna, causing about 11,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

Extreme weather will also impact food production – there have been plenty of recent reports on critical olive oil shortages in Spain – where the UK buys from – thanks to a lack of rainfall.<\/p>\n

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