This article has been updated. Portions of this story were originally published on Jan. 20, 2022.
It’s almost midnight. It has been for over 75 years. And in 2023, humanity is closer to the brink than it has ever been.
That’s if you’re telling time by the Doomsday Clock, which isn’t an actual clock, of course. It’s a warning to humanity, a metaphorical countdown to existential midnight, the end of the world as we know it.
