[jonahbenton]

No disrespect intended, but "human civilization" is an idea, an abstraction, a storyline, in your head. It is a narrative in a TV show you watch. That TV show is tangentially related to your real life with real people and relationships in the sense that there are common themes and actions and storyline abstractions that are similar, and in particular TV storylines can be helpful to the real world by showing useful approaches or solutions or motivating your instincts for care and love in one direction or another. But. There is very little any one of us, even Elon, can do about the world 600,000 years from now. Even 60,000, or 6,000, or 600. Those worlds are not a part of any of our individual spheres of control. More people than you could ever meet will have lived/died without your having any awareness of their lives even in the next 6 years. And notwithstanding all of the other creatures we share the world with. We are just specks of dust. Every moment in the today we have for our experiences and our love is a gift to us. There are many "interesting times" for those who will have their todays in the future, just as there were so many for those whose todays came before. So many more interesting times than we can ever know. All we can know and hope to effect is our today, and our relationships.