In China the Year of the Snake starts today January 29, 2025 the first day of the Lunar New Year. Year 2025 will have a strong fire element, along with metal and earth elements. This is a zodiac sign that can cause significant clashes and conflicts.

Religious people have Armageddon, and Scientists have the Doomsday clock; which was set at 89 seconds to midnight on January 27, 2025 making it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists and religious people both agree is a “global catastrophe.” 

The decades-old international symbol, described by the University of Chicago-based nonprofit the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists as a metaphor to show how close our planet is to reaching “human extinction,” is set every year. In January 2024, the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the same as it was in 2023. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tracks human made threats and focuses on three main hazards — nuclear risk, climate change and disruptive technologies — to determine the clock’s placement. 

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of very dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024.

The past 10 years have been the warmest 10 years since record-keeping began. The fearful news is that the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said: “Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change. These damages are six times larger than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees.

And health and economic costs from three toxic chemicals used in plastics is estimated at $1.5 trillion for a single year. The study, published December 16, 2024 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed data from 38 different countries, representing one-third of the total global population. Bisphenol A (BPA), commonly found in food packaging, is an endocrine disruptor associated with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and reproductive disorders. BPA exposure was associated with 5.4 million cases of heart disease and 346,000 strokes, leading to 431,000 deaths. 

But the good news is that........

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