The 21st century is the physical manifestation of the ancient concepts of apocalypse/transcendence. I'm an optimist (I think with good reason), but not a determinist. It is in the ruptures, in the dramatic/traumatic discontinuities when life really breaks into something new. That is the only way life breaks into something new. True at the individual and the collective level. Punctuated equilibrium OR: oh shit we have to change. I still think the end of the human universe is the symbiotic synthesis of transhumanity. I don't think that entity will have trouble stabilising planetary socio-economy/ecology.And you're still confident in the technological salvation/ ascension of the species?
Is there going to be a point where the womb of humanity will be too poisonous/damaged to give birth to the next phase of intelligent life?
Or will the phoenix come rising out of the ashes of society as we know it?