Environmental Doomsday Clock Advanced: Asahi Glass Foundation Survey in 2008

The Environmental Doomsday Clock was advanced to 9:33, according to the results of an annual survey, conducted by the Asahi Glass Foundation and released on September 10, 2008. The survey targeted environmental experts around the world. The clock indicates the survey respondents' sense of crisis threatening human survival, caused by the deterioration of environmental conditions. It advanced two minutes from the previous year, exhibiting the highest sense of crisis since the survey started in 1992.

The clock's hands equate the respondents' concern to the time of day (from 0:01 to 12:00). The interval between 9:01 and 12:00 is regarded as a range exhibiting the sense where they are "extremely concerned."

In this year's survey, "Global warming" was most frequently cited as the major environmental concern in deciding the time by respondents (68 percent), followed by "water shortage, and food problems" at 50 percent with an approximately 10-point increase from last year. In addition, close to 70 percent of the respondents overall evaluated the Kyoto Protocol and the Thirteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP13).

- The Asahi Glass Foundation Announces Results of the 17th Annual "Questionnaire on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Human Kind"
http://www.af-info.or.jp/eng/
questionnaire/enquete2008e/release2008.pdf
- Questionnaire on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Human Kind
http://www.af-info.or.jp/eng/
questionnaire/questionnaire-e.html
- Survey Shows Environmental Doomsday Recedes Slightly (Related JFS article)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/025785.html
- Environmental Doomsday Clock Shows Growing Concerns: Asahi Glass Foundation 2007 Survey (Related JFS article)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/026914.html

Posted: 2008/11/22 06:52:00 AM