What I am getting at is that we have a range of choice available, more than we can currently imagine, of HOW to address the “hellish future.”
Flash: life on earth has always been hellish. It has been tipped heavily towards sloth in the America we once knew — we suppressed so much superficial evil, we forgot what it is to fight it down deep. God is forcing us out of that posture now. We might have called it nice. God calls it sin.
Our group punishment on this world is going to be very severe. What comes after is a religious discussion.