[xcamel]

The world has always been in caos politically, socially, and environmentally. We will get through the next 100 years in exactly the same way as we got through the past 10,000 1.2 million years...one day at a time.

there, fixed that.

:-)

[Vaquero]

1.2 million....

not as the current specie....more like a hundred thou....that is, as we are today...

...our humanoid ancestors of course do go back at least that far....

[Bernard Marx]

We will get through the next 100 years in exactly the same way as we got through the past 10,000 1.2 million years...one day at a time.

True. And recall that 70,000 years ago, after the horrendous eruption of the supervolcano Toba, the entire human population was reduced to about 2000 individuals.

Humans have always survived by adaptation to new circumstances. You can't plan for a supervolcano eruption, an impact by a massive meteorite or comet, rapacious new opportunistic diseases, earthquakes, climatic warming or cooling cycles, etc. The notion that human societies can continue, unaltered, at present population levels or greater seems extremely naive to me.