The Doomsday Clock was recently updated based on current events. For those not familiar with the clock, it is a symbolic representation of how close we currently are to man-made global catastrophe.
We are now “90 seconds to midnight”. It is the closest we’ve ever been to the end. Curious, I documented the clock settings during my lifetime.
- 1968: 7 minutes to midnight
- 1969: 10 minutes
- 1972: 12 minutes
- 1974: 9 minutes
- 1980: 7 minutes
- 1984: 3 minutes
- 1988: 6 minutes
- 1990: 10 minutes
- 1991: 17 minutes
- 1995: 14 minutes
- 1998: 9 minutes
- 2002: 7 minutes
- 2007: 5 minutes
- 2010: 6 minutes
- 2012: 5 minutes
- 2015: 3 minutes
- 2017: 2 1/2 minutes
- 2018: 2 minutes
- 2020: 100 seconds
- 2023: 90 seconds to midnight
Global climate change and associated in action, the war in Ukraine with threats of nuclear-based attacks, and other strife in the world are bringing us closer than ever before to global catastrophe.
Not to sound too grim, but I would not be surprised to see a globally catastrophic event in my lifetime.
