
Last year, in case you didn’t notice, those “hands that threaten doom”, which Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson once sang about, inched 10 seconds closer to midnight. The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the people who created the Doomsday Clock back in 1947 to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world, reset the minute hand for the 25th time since its creation, moving it closer to the hour than it has ever been.
So the prospect of imminent global catastrophe is now ever more pronounced, which, to be honest, is something of a bummer. “We are approaching the end of an era. So let’s have a good time.”