Essay by Eric Worrall
Doomsday visited the clock before the 2030 deadline.
Victoria’s $18,000 Climate Change Doomsday Clock Vandalised
A controversial $18,000 countdown clock said to mark the beginning of the end has been heavily graffitied.
By Crystal-Rose Jones
2/23/2025Updated: 2/23/2025A newly erected art installation in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy has been heavily vandalised with graffiti.
The much-discussed artwork, titled Zone Red, is the creation of Melbourne artist and climate change campaigner Yandell Walton, and was first unveiled in November 2024.
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Yarra City Council and Victorian Police were contacted for comment.
Read more: https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/victorias-18000-climate-change-doomsday-clock-vandalised-5815118
WUWT reported on the clock a few days ago.
WUWT does not condone lawbreaking and vandalism. Having said that, I doubt this graffiti attack had anything to do with our article, vandalism and graffiti are rampant in today’s inner city Melbourne. There was a murder in Fitzroy Gardens, the site of the statue, in 2023. Reasonably safe in daylight, but not the kind of place I would be comfortable visiting after dark.
Correction (EW): h/t Nick Stokes – the statue is in Fitzroy’s Edinburgh Gardens, not Fitzroy Gardens.
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As Windsor Davies regularly observed in the unlikely to be repeated series It Ain’t half Hot Mum, “Oh dear, how sad, never mind” https://youtu.be/NiJAhP39aVA
Upon further contemplation a better defacement would have been to add “99” to the left of the number. (~500 years)
This was not the end, nor was it the beginning of the end.
Perhaps it is the end of the beginning?
Nah. Pointless construction. Pointless destruction.
These aren’t the droids you are looking for. Move along. Move along.
Oh my goodness, now we’ll never know when it’s 2030.