[Source.](https://the-pipeline.org/the-column-the-end-is-near-again/) > Stop me if you've heard this one before: comes the news that the countdown to doomsday has been started up again, and this time Planet Earth has only two years left to get its act together before it's too late. The huzzerei comes from, where else, the United Nations, one of the two principal remaining relicts of World War II badly in need of immediate demolition. (The other is NATO.) Make sure your affairs are in order, your last will and testament duly drawn and notarized, bend over, grab your ankles, and assume the crash position because here it comes: >> Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, the head of the United Nations climate agency said.