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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Doomsday Clock.
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how dangerous this moment in human history is — and the urgent need to get involved. We want to hear about the actions that inspire you and how we can work together to save the world.
Since 1947, the Clock has been a symbol for how close humanity is to destroying itself with nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies.
Our belief is that because humans created these problems, we have the obligation and opportunity to fix them. So, in the 75th year of the Doomsday Clock, we’re asking people to share their ideas about what can be done to turn back the Clock.
Challenge submissions can share:
- Positive actions that inspire you
- People or groups who are making a difference
- How you and your community are helping to make the world safer
Share your challenge submissions in whatever format you communicate best, whether that's through art, writing, videos, or song.
To join the challenge, simply share your ideas to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or TikTok with the hashtag #TurnBackTheClock.
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On this, the most depressing holiday of the year, @BulletinAtomic's #DoomsdayClock announcement, @MeltTheBandNYC releases our new song #WalkToMidnight! Let's reverse the walk to midnight and #TurnBackTheClock. https://t.co/9koNv3Aiac https://t.co/sQWjpLLEAX
— Veronica (@vstewartfrommer) January 20, 2022
It's 90 minutes to #doomsdayclock time. Where Would You Set the Planetary Threat Hands and What's One Way to #TurnBackTheClock? https://t.co/IiKshUgaUT Join me at 3:30 US ET with some answers.
— Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ (@Revkin) January 20, 2022
Thank you for your message to young people. Instead of getting mad, be curious and focused!
"No one changes the world alone and no one doesn't change it at all..."
We can all join the #TurnBackTheClock challenge!
— Reilly Neill (@Reilly2020) January 20, 2022
#TurnBackTheClock
Energy Efficiency can make a huge difference to reduce carbon emissions. Show in these realized examples: Also reducing dependence on fossil fuels and thus reducing conflicts.https://t.co/Kuo2rg7NDn— Wolfgang Feist (@WolfgangFeist) January 20, 2022
We loved hearing your message to young people! At Beyond the Bomb we work to #TurnBackTheClock by mobilizing and empowering younger generations to take action to help prevent nuclear war! https://t.co/Y8FkJmLZih
— Beyond the Bomb (@BeyondtheBomb) January 20, 2022
My way of helping to #turnbacktheclock is working to build a small, electric robot that can replace full-sized cars for delivery services, cutting emissions and giving roads back to people. Importantly, it needs to be recycleable and durable to cut down waste too 1/2
— Tranzallos (@tranzallos) January 20, 2022
An excellent take on the #TurnBackTheClock challenge from sustainability advocate & climate activist @NinaGbor 🙌
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@BulletinAtomic) January 21, 2022
Learn more about the #TurnBackTheClock challenge here: https://t.co/VdqU5Z2cBq pic.twitter.com/y7ToJuGC70
It's 100 seconds to midnight.
— Manuel Caicedo 🌳 (@_ManuelCaicedo) January 21, 2022
Let's remove nuclear weapons and remove all fossil fuel money and proyects and we will #TurnBackTheClock
Faltan 100 segundos para medianoche.
Eliminemos las armas nucleares y todas las inversiones en petróleo y carbón.
Así el reloj dará marcha atrás https://t.co/BAV46uprHe
It's still 100 seconds to midnight on the #DoomsdayClock. We can #TurnBackTheClock by supporting efforts to achieve global nuclear disarmament. Tell your government to join the #nuclearban treaty and tell your bank to stop investing in the companies that make nuclear weapons ☮️ https://t.co/SZKD3B6frP
— Don't Bank on the Bomb Scotland (@NukeDivestScot) January 20, 2022
When I am not always optimistic about the future, @hankgreen's words are inspiring. Want to uplift the idea to choose one thing to care about and trust others to take on the other challenges. I #TurnBackTheClock by working with @citizensclimate to put a price on carbon! https://t.co/vZar780EFv
— April I Neander (@aineander) January 21, 2022
To help #TurnBackTheClock
— 80 years of history: The #MarchForTheUNcharter (@TheCartHorse1) January 22, 2022
"Pick a focus...
Because no one changes the world alone"
~@HankGreen
There are 17 UN Global Goals to pick from in the 2015 UN Declaration🔎'A Call For Action'
80 years ago, the first #MarchForTheUNcharter was 14th June 1942.https://t.co/uvP0ulByas pic.twitter.com/uQtLoOuq2Z
#EnvironmentalEducation for #Climate & #Sustainability (see #Article12 of the #ParisAgreement) in:
— Doccy B 🌿🌿🦔🌿🌿🐝🌿 (@merylbatchelder) January 22, 2022
🏫 schools
🏙 communities
🏭 industry
💶 finance
🛍 retail
🎩 politics
🚜 farming
Alongside radical & urgent #decarbonisation.
Might #TurnBackTheClock and save us a few seconds.
#TurnBackTheClock We need media literacy to be a core requirement of our education systems. English is a core class due to the widespread availability of print materials. If everyone is going to be able to use the internet, there needs to be an equivalent core requirement.
— Kaysie Larson (@KaysieLarson) January 22, 2022
Let's #TurnBackTheClock by eliminating nuclear weapons and ratifying #CTBT! See my article in the Chicago @Suntimes @BulletinAtomic @Youth4CTBT @CTBTO @CTBTnow @globalzero @CCruzColorado @PSRnuclear @AtomicReporters @nukes_of_hazard @NTI_WMD https://t.co/PMfAlLC6bi @CSTopinion
— William Lambers (@WilliamLambers) January 22, 2022
Ban nuclear weapons and fossil fuels please #TurnBackTheClock
— Gage 👺 (@xgagelee) January 22, 2022
“Tell them stories” - @PhilipPullman #TurnBackTheClock
— son of the sea (@captfeathers) January 22, 2022
23:58:20https://t.co/IgYKjliOOw
— 433records (@433records1) January 21, 2022
A Performance Art compilation from HK artists echoing Doomsday Clock 2022. All tracks are set to be 100s. When time's up, the track will be terminated, all unfinished parts will be hard-cut and removed…#TurnBackTheClock #DoomsdayClock pic.twitter.com/5KR19c3IxF
When I am not always optimistic about the future, @hankgreen's words are inspiring. Want to uplift the idea to choose one thing to care about and trust others to take on the other challenges. I #TurnBackTheClock by working with @citizensclimate to put a price on carbon! https://t.co/vZar780EFv
— April I Neander (@aineander) January 21, 2022
Read about how the band Melt fights to prevent nuclear war and preview their new song Walk to Midnight! #TurnBackTheClock https://t.co/DFEgXSg792 pic.twitter.com/T8mAMhljxd
— Beyond the Bomb (@BeyondtheBomb) January 21, 2022
NFTs are gonna make midnight happen faster.
— Pur0 (@MyNameIsPur0) January 20, 2022
Stop buying nfts.#TurnBackTheClock #DoomsdayClock
You're right about young people's ability to snuff out the BS, @hankgreen! Activists @beyondthebomb are some of the many young people putting nuclear policy at the intersection of racial, social, and climate justice. Join us and other young activists to #TurnBackTheClock! https://t.co/F3XYPDBIQt
— Sofia Guerra (@SofiaErnestina) January 21, 2022
#TurnBacktheClock
— 80 years of history: The #MarchForTheUNcharter (@TheCartHorse1) January 21, 2022
We've got some catching up to do.
Building Peace is #Goal16 https://t.co/LxMlNBnRvE
@hankgreen the #BombSquad and @Beyondthebomb bring young people from across the arts, non profit sector, and academia to address nuclear weapons and turn #TurnBackTheClock before its too late!
— H.M. Kamwendo (@hmkamwendo) January 20, 2022
To #TurnBackTheClock we should make people aware of the risks we're facing, in order for the whole globe to spend less money for military purposes, nuclear and fossil energy, reinvesting it in renewable resources and global welfare.
— Tess (@Spo_o_cky) January 20, 2022
LIVE now - discussing #doomsdayclock 100 seconds to midnight finding and where we go to #turnbacktheclock! https://t.co/uXeAxxY4XQ
— Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ (@Revkin) January 20, 2022
#TurnBackTheClock
— Wolfgang Feist (@WolfgangFeist) January 20, 2022
Energy Efficiency can make a huge difference to reduce carbon emissions. Show in these realized examples: Also reducing dependence on fossil fuels and thus reducing conflicts.https://t.co/Kuo2rg7NDn
@hankgreen, the young people are on it! Check out @BeyondtheBomb, a coalition of young activists workin to #TurnBackTheClock.
— Veronica (@vstewartfrommer) January 20, 2022
To me, if anything could be discerned as our purpose in the universe it's this. Let's invest in renewable energies, sustainable environments, and keep this universe friendly to life for the foreseeable future. 4/4#turnbacktheclock
— Baxter Williams (@BaxterWilliams_) January 20, 2022
The #DoomsdayClock remains at 100 seconds to midnight.
— Future of Life Institute (@FLIxrisk) January 20, 2022
As @hankgreen points out, this is not so much stasis as a balance of new improvements (such as fighting the pandemic with new technologies) and many new risk developments.@FLIxrisk agrees, it's time to #TurnBackTheClock. https://t.co/HcJWGNFjZO
Ideologies that embrace an apocalyptic end to the universe permit ideas and actions that could bring about our end even if it wasn't inevitable. Let us not be the cause of our own demise. Embrace a sustainable future instead.#turnbacktheclock
— Baxter Williams (@BaxterWilliams_) January 20, 2022
#turnbacktheclock why are we not planting in urban areas more? What heppend to rooftop gardens? Wouldn't a drastic increase in green space help reduce C02 levels? And if food is grown we would also reduce food insecurity! This is an old idea so why has almost nothing been done?
— Annie Jane (@Anniejane13) January 20, 2022
Thank you @hankgreen for your incredible words today at the Doomsday Clock announcement. I think we all need to remember not to carry the weight of the world solely upon ourselves, but to share the load in good faith and curiosity for the betterment of us all. #turnbacktheclock
— ✨ pierogiwizard ✨ (@StefFett) January 20, 2022
Words are cheap and time is short. With the #DoomsdayClock at 100 seconds to midnight, world leaders need to prioritize steps to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in security, and decrease the risk that they will be used. @BulletinAtomic #TurnBackTheClock https://t.co/wPlxmyXZ7L
— Global Zero (@globalzero) January 20, 2022
We in the Aerospace Community need to stand together. Threats from Anti-Satellite Tests and the misuse of orbital assets for military purposes help to march the doomsday clock closer to midnight. Space is for Science. Not for militarization. #TurnBacktheClock
— Asteria Aerospace (@AeroAsteria) January 20, 2022
#DoomsdayClock still at 100 seconds to midnight - the world is as dangerous as ever. Help CND turn back the clock and get rid of nuclear weapons - we must act now https://t.co/BOplvsbTYD #turnbacktheclock pic.twitter.com/oGqAxCaBrG
— CND (@CNDuk) January 20, 2022
We might still be 100 seconds to midnight, but with bands like @MeltTheBandNYC working to #TurnBackTheClock I have hope, and a great soundtrack https://t.co/WThHgvlT85
— Tristan (they/them) (@TrisInToledo) January 20, 2022
It's still 100 seconds to midnight on the #DoomsdayClock. We can #TurnBackTheClock by supporting efforts to achieve global nuclear disarmament. Tell your government to join the #nuclearban treaty and tell your bank to stop investing in the companies that make nuclear weapons ☮️ https://t.co/SZKD3B6frP
— Don't Bank on the Bomb Scotland (@NukeDivestScot) January 20, 2022
@itsnotmeyouareincorrect Should I do more of these? #turnbacktheclock @hankgreen1 #zerowaste #environmentallyfriendly #environment #community #sahm #frugal #frugalliving #easy ♬ The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
If the world reduced its military budget by just 2%, we would have ONE TRILLION USD to #TurnBacktheClock. That could be, one trillion towards climate action, one trillion towards ending the pandemic, one trillion to humanitarian aid.
— C for Climate 🌏 (@CforClimate) January 20, 2022
The @BulletinAtomic #Doomsday Clock stays at #100SecondsToMidnight, the closest it’s been in the now 75-year history of the metaphorical image. The threats remain real, as does the opportunity to #TurnBackTheClock. pic.twitter.com/kkrlg6sETk
— James 'JP' Pearce (@ItsOnlyJP) January 20, 2022
Another way to get involved
If the world's militaries diverted just 2% of their spending budget, we could have $1,000,000,000,000 to address climate change, pandemics, and extreme poverty.
The Global Peace Dividend is working to make this a reality with a petition on Change.org.
Bulletin President and CEO Rachel Bronson is among the individuals who have signed the petition and you can be too.
Click the button below to add your name to the petition.