Doomsday time 11:55

To give some oomph to the previous post, here is more detail on what recently moved the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to push forward the symbolic clock that marks our world's proximity to catastrophic destruction:
Doomsday Clock: 5 minutes to midnight
It is not the closest to midnight we have ever been, but it is worthwhile to note that the threat has never been as multilateral as today. And included in it is not only what we have inflicted (or can inflict) upon ourselves directly, but natural phenomena like global warming that are escalating beyond our control.