Climate change and nuclear proliferation have moved the world closer to apocalypse, Professor Stephen Hawking and his colleagues have warned.At the same time, the hand of a Doomsday Clock has moved two minutes closer to midnight.
The clock, devised at the dawn of the nuclear age, has made official what many now feel in their bones — that mankind is heading for catastrophe.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 to warn the world of the dangers of nuclear weapons, advanced the clock to five minutes to midnight.
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Pack your bags and run for the hills people... Steven Hawking and Co sayith the end is near-ith.
Recent climate change and the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran pairs with the current state of affairs leads the [i]'The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' [/i](no they're not a super-hero group) to believe the apocalypse, the end of days, Ragnarok is almost apon us.
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The end is always getting nearer.
Yet it never arrives!
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition, burns a picture to obtain the ashes!