After all, as far as I know, an asteroid six miles across hasn’t impacted Earth, nor did a volcano erupt to epic proportions to acidify the oceans and pour ash everywhere. Or to put a finer point on the issue of our time and that of our descendants: We are currently in the Sixth Extinction, following from the Big Five, with the most famous being the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago (incidentally, allowing us to rise up). At the macro level, which is to say, on the geological and even cosmic timescale, human ingenuity animates both our existential salvation and destruction, that which has allowed us to evolve as a species to pontificate about our own survival (and that of other species!) and the ability to hit the self-destruct button en masse, perhaps not even intentionally (think an accident with the handling of nuclear weapons). We’re all going to die, or maybe not (well, yes, we still will).
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