The hour of humanity's self-annihilation has just been struck by the Doomsday Clock, and things may soon get a lot worse.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set a new time on Thursday.
The time hasn't changed, but the outlook remains bleak.
Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at the Bulletin, said that stubbornness is not good news because it shows the board that we are stuck at a perilous moment.
The non-profit warned that the climate crisis, arms races, and COVID-19 have left us no more time to waste.
The clock is an icon of humanity.
The greatest threat to civilization was nuclear weapons.
The Bulletin launched a project to warn the public about the dangers of dangerous tech.
The last time it was from midnight was when the Cold War ended. The clock was set to 23:43 when the US and the Soviet Union agreed to deplete their nuclear weapons.
The closest we could get to midnight was two years ago, when it was 100 seconds.
We need to make radical changes before it is too late.
We are more likely to hit the snooze button.
There is still time to make time travel possible.