100 Seconds to Midnight

A few weeks ago, a group of international scientists announced an annual update to their so-called “Doomsday Clock.” The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have maintained the clock since 1947 as a visual metaphor of how close our civilization is to a human-caused apocalypse.

The clock is now set at 23:58:20 in a symbolic 24-hour day. If midnight represents t…