Funny how everyone seems to expect a general collapse of civilization, and for good reason. It seems to happen every 1500 to 2000 years, and we all know about the Roman collapse around 500 AD, some know about the collapse of 1400 BC.
Peculiar, though is the human response to this knowledge. Go to Mars. Live in a hole in the ground. Look for some near miraculous technical or worst of all, political solution. We seem to look at these things personally, but in reality they play out over much longer timescales than the human lifetime.
In the end, we are all dead, and the most ironic thing about all this is that most never come to terms with that fact but obsess about events that play out over a timescale twenty times greater than our lifespan as though it was happening next Tuesday.
But for some group of someones, it will be the next day of the week it happens on.
It’s not a paradox, but someone ends up being “that guy” or “those people”.
Look at the American revolution. There was day before the declaration of independence, and then the day of the signing, and the day after. And the war had already started by then anyway.
Someone ends up going through the worst part of the ride.