Nobel Prize-winning physicist predicts the date of humanity’s destruction

That projection will place a possible tipping point around the year 2061 if current conditions remain unchanged.

He also pointed to growing instability across the global landscape.

“Things have gotten so much worse in the last 30 years, as you can see every time you read the newspaper,” he said. “In the last 10 years, there are no treaties anymore. We’re entering an incredible arms race. We have three super nuclear powers. People are talking about using nuclear weapons; there’s a major war going on in the middle of Europe; we’re bombing Iran; India and Pakistan almost went to war.”