[thinkingemote]

Indeed, even within the memories of many living people that the author can speak to right now are two events: cold war and Cuban missile crisis where the world really could have ended properly. And the second world war when seventy million humans died and countless others had irreversible damage to them.

This kind of apocalyptic thinking is also damaging to the birth rate "why have children in such a world". The irony here is that is literally how the world can end.

There's also a fallacy of the hinge of history. Everyone thinks they are living in the most important of times ever and they have always done throughout history.

[xg15]

Runaway climate change will not "end the world", but it will make large parts of the world inhospitable.

[bradgessler]

Additionally, saying “the world is ending” is laughably incorrect. The world will be fine if we’re gone. If anything does end, it’s the habitability of Earth for humans. Many other animals will live on and new species will evolve.

[xg15]

And that's relevant how? Unfortunately we are humans and not some hypothetical future species.

[brodouevencode]

The millennial and Genz generations are so nihilistic.