America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.
It's so difficult to shock America these days.
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.