Whoops! Doomsday Clock Moves, Signs Earth's Destruction Is Nearing?

Doomsday Clock is approaching midnight (Newsweek)

JAKARTA – The Doomsday Clock is at 100 seconds until tonight. The Doomsday Clock is moving closer to the apocalypse due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the world.

For information, this Doomsday Clock is not related to the time of the end of the world. This is a reminder of the actions of humans that are destroying the Earth so that it can cause destruction.

Responding to the Doomsday Clock movement, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) explained that the movement was caused by the slow response of world governments in dealing with Covid-19.

"The pandemic reveals how unprepared and unwilling countries and the international system are to properly handle a global emergency," said the BAS scientists.

"In times of true crisis, governments too often shirk responsibilities, ignore the advice of scientists, don't cooperate or communicate effectively and as a result fail to protect the health and well-being of their citizens."

The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by BAS which was founded by Albert Einstein and students from the University of Chicago. At that time, the clock was set to seven minutes before midnight. As time goes by, several times the clock approaches and moves away from midnight which is symbolized as a marker of the apocalypse. The longest hour, 17 minutes from midnight. It happened in 1991.

At that time, there was a meeting of two great world leaders, US President George Bush and Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev who announced the reduction of nuclear weapons on both sides.

Doomsday Clock takes into account a number of problems that occur in the world including nuclear dangers and climate change and the spread of disinformation in cyberspace, then conspiracy theories that could lead to nuclear play.

“The existential threat of nuclear weapons and climate change has increased in recent years due to threat multipliers; continuous corruption of the information ecosphere on which public decision-makers depend,” said the BAS scientist.