faltam 5 minutos para o apocalipse

Esta Quarta-feira 17 um grupo de proeminentes cientistas adiantou um pouco mais o Doomsday Clock (relógio do apocalipse). São agora 5 para a meia noite. Este relógio, criado em 1947 pelo Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nasceu para ser um reflexo dos perigos da energia nuclear, sendo que a meia noite significa a destruição do mundo por uma guerra nuclear. Eis um excerto da declaração proferida por esse grupo de cientistas:

“We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices. North Korea’s recent test of a nuclear weapon, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a renewed U.S. emphasis on the military utility of nuclear weapons, the failure to adequately secure nuclear materials, and the continued presence of some 26,000 nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia are symptomatic of a larger failure to solve the problems posed by the most destructive technology on Earth.

As in past deliberations, we have examined other human-made threats to civilization. We have concluded that the dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The effects may be less dramatic in the short term than the destruction that could be wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades climate change could cause drastic harm to the habitats upon which human societies depend for survival.”

Tendo ainda em conta o ênfase dado nesta declaração à problemática do aquecimento global, gostariade destacar o comentário proferido nessa conferência pelo prestigiado cientista Stephen Hawking e que estabelece uma das melhores analogias que já li sobre a urgência de meter mãos à luta no combate ao aquecimento global.

"Terror only kills hundreds or thousands of people. Global warming could kill millions. We should have a war on global warming rather than the war on terror."

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