Youth Must Turn Back the Doomsday Clock 2021/07/25 07:43
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Last year, wildfires ravaged rainforests from Australia to the Amazon.
Last month, extreme heat waves swept across the American Northwest.
Just last/this week, record rainfall unleashed destructive floods across Western Europe.
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Rising temperatures have fueled the number and intensity of natural disasters we face. Still, climatechange is but one of the existential crises threatening our future.
In January, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists unveiled their iconic Doomsday Clock for 2021. Due tothe twin threats of climate change and nuclear weapons, the clock signals 100 seconds to midnight,or doomsday. Humanity is the closest we’ve been to self-destruction since the clock’s creation in
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