A couple of days ago I stumbled into the headline ‘Doomsday Clock is now 100 seconds from midnight’, published by space.com. I wasn’t aware, but this clock is a metaphor for how close we are in the world to a man-made global catastrophe. This device was set up in 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, when nuclear weapons were considered the main threat. Today, the global warming issue is also considered in the equation on how to calculate this time.

Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, this time around in 2020, it’s the closest it has been to midnight. 2019 was the second hottest year in history, the growing instability in the Middle East, and even the possible AI use in warfare don’t help to move this time backwards. The picture is not a pretty one, but there is at least one more voice reminding world leaders what is at stake here.