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The world is experiencing troubling
. We have the COVID-19 pandemic, a
cost of living crisis, a changing
, and record heat waves. The United Nations has warned of an increasing
- nuclear annihilation. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that one small
could lead to a nuclear war. Mr Guterres warned that international
were "reaching new highs". He pointed to the Ukraine War, the Korean
, and the Middle East as possible
. He said, "we have been extraordinarily lucky so far" to have avoided nuclear conflict. He said: "Luck is not a
. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear
."