Day: April 15, 2020💾

Coronavirus pandemic could be nature’s response to climate crisis – CNN

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Pope Francis: Coronavirus pandemic could be nature’s response to climate crisis – CNN

Pope Francis has said the coronavirus pandemic is one of "nature's responses" to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis.

In an email interview published Wednesday in The Tablet and Commonwealth magazines, the pontiff said the outbreak offered an opportunity to slow down the rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world

Observations on managing global risk – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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COVID-19 and the Doomsday Clock: Observations on managing global risk – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

On January 23, 2020, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 100 seconds to midnight. We board members warned then that the world’s institutional and political capacity for reducing the possibility of civilization-scale catastrophe had been diminished, and the need for emergency action was urgent. In our statement, we explained that because of the worldwide governmental trend toward dysfunction in dealing with global threats, we felt compelled to set the Doomsday Clock closer than it had ever been to apocalypse.