00:00Is the world truly approaching a point of no return?
00:05That question is becoming unavoidable as the doomsday clock moves to the closest
00:10point in its history, leaving humanity just 85 seconds away from
00:15midnight, marking the most severe scientific warning since the clock was first
00:20introduced in 1947.
00:23This symbolic timing and
00:25announced by atomic scientists did not come out of nowhere.
00:29It reflects an unprecedented
00:30escalation in the scale of threats surrounding the world, most notably
00:35the acceleration of the nuclear arms race and the erosion of commitment to arms control
00:40agreements, the war in Ukraine and the sharp international tensions it has triggered.
00:45Alongside escalating instability in the Middle East and Asia, the unregulated
00:50integration of artificial intelligence into military domains, growing biological
00:55threats, whether natural or the result of human misuse, climate change.
01:00which is no longer a future danger, but a present force threatening food security.
01:05In short, the report concludes that the world is experiencing a state of compromise
01:10comprehensive leadership failure, where crises are managed through short-term reactions
01:15rather than long-term strategic solutions.
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