I'm not sure why folks use extremes: like, emotional blackmail and logical fallacies to shape discussions. Have some of us lost our critical thinking faculties or optimism? Granted, sometimes sounding warnings are helpful. Nonetheless the point is to evaluate & respond to them in a rational manner, while we can. I believe if we had exercised more of critical thinking, in this last 30 years, rather than confuse on opinions with facts, we wouldn't be so wedded to gloom and doom scenarios. Besides, a lot of good stuff has been happening as well. If millions more die, then the human species needs to work even harder to offset its nihilistic directions. That's a worthy challenge. ^^^^^^^ Yes it is, is now and will be for generations to come. ============ We can however control ourselves and be the best people we can be thereby raising the odds that the species will survive. ^^^^^^^^ ccrr, it is the nature of the beast - good - bad, good and evil, both inside ourselves since we got kicked out of the garden. In nature, of which we are an intrinsic, inescapable part, animals and plants with the hardiest genes select to carry those on to the next generations. A wounded animal, even the great lion, tries to hide its injuries so it can still pass on its genes one way or another, for the benefit of the species. We do that too, just more subtly and cached. The hardiest among us hopefully will prevail at least to pass on our genes to children of a better world, better able to adapt to a radically-changing world situation, better able to see good and make that happen, and leave evil and self-destruction in the fading footprints of history. Aggressive militarism and terrorism are works of desperate and programmed peoples, congenitally unable to effect and live a better way with at least our own species, much less the natural world from which we all came, in which we all live, and to which we are all going.