00:00If you're a news watcher, you need to hear this. The doomsday clock just ticked forward, again.
00:05Humanity is running out of time. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just reset the doomsday clock.
00:10To 85 seconds before midnight, four seconds closer than last year. That's the closest
00:15we've ever been to global disaster. Why? Nuclear tensions, climate change, danger.
00:20Advances in artificial intelligence and the threat of new pandemics are all pushing us toward the edge.
00:25This year, they point to Russia's war in Ukraine, U.S., and Israel.
00:30Israeli strikes on Iran, rising India-Pakistan tensions, and climate disasters.
00:35Experts say it's a failure of leadership and warn that international cooperation
00:40is breaking down fast. But, here's the key. The clock.
00:45The clock is only a warning. Citizens like you can demand real action from leaders.
00:49The doomsday clock.
00:50The clock has moved backward before. Eight times. If we act now, we can turn back the clock.
00:55The clock.
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