(but most people assume that life will just continue to carry on as it normally does)
2 Peter 3:4-6
King James Version
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%203%3A4-6&version=KJV
(Not your quote above of course - but from the article)
Jinx, you’re it!
How danged close are we? Worldwide starvation?