@JohnPhilpin @odd @crossingthethreshold Yeah, I mean, the Earth and solar system have a definite end date, so, there's that. In the scheme of things the Universe has no care about whether a species known as Homo sapiens exists on a planet called earth. For our own sake it is perhaps sad that we are only sort of intelligent, certainly not wise, in terms of our ability to plan for our future survival.
My assumption/guess is that we've done enough damage already or that we're close and not on a trajectory to change fast enough, that the result will be disruptive to to the point that we have a planetary-wide extinction event of an untold number of species and that we're not likely to be one that survives. 200 years or less? I assume it's already started but we're just in the first years.
Perhaps it was inevitable? Perhaps our species, for all of its "intelligence" is not capable of the kind of social organization needed for long term survival. I've come to think of Homo sapiens as a very clever, semi-intelligent primate. But still a primate and still only partially capable of advanced thought.
Even the dinosaurs with their relatively tiny brains lived for many millions of years. It would seem they were better suited for survival.