{"id":88341,"date":"2019-03-03T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/doomsday-clock-is-staying-at-two-minutes-to-midnight-this-year"},"modified":"2019-03-03T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:43:23","slug":"doomsday-clock-is-staying-at-two-minutes-to-midnight-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/doomsday-clock-is-staying-at-two-minutes-to-midnight-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Clock Is Staying at Two Minutes to Midnight This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doomsday-clock-is-staying-at-two-minutes-to-midnight-this-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Bulletin, we\u2019ve done nothing in the past year to make the situation any less precarious \u2014 humanity still faces not one, but two \u201cexistential threats\u201d in the form of nuclear weapons and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>While the clock remains set at 11:58, the potential of either threat to destroy humanity has increased over the past 12 months, according to the Bulletin\u2019s 2019 statement. We must do something to alter our path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough unchanged from 2018, this setting should be taken not as a sign of stability but as a stark warning to leaders and citizens around the world,\u201d the scientists wrote. \u201cThe current international security situation \u2014 what we call the \u2018new abnormal\u2019 \u2014 has extended over two years now\u2026 Th e longer world leaders and citizens carelessly inhabit this new and abnormal reality, the more likely the world is to experience catastrophe of historic proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/doomsday-clock-two-minutes-midnight\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/doomsday-clock-two-minutes-midnight<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Bulletin, we\u2019ve done nothing in the past year to make the situation any less precarious \u2014 humanity still faces not one, but two \u201cexistential threats\u201d in the form of nuclear weapons and climate change. While the clock remains set at 11:58, the potential of either threat to destroy humanity has increased over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,12,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}