[jungturk]

Don't disagree with any of that, and I don't want to minimize the seriousness of the issues you've cited, but that kind of reinforces the implication of the scorecard?

People are persistently presented with perils (plagues, parasites, pollution, power-hungry politicians, propaganda, plutonium-powered projectiles, etc...) and humanity keeps finding a way through (though certainly at great personal and population-wide cost sometimes).

Some pretty serious chokepoints in the full history (including research suggesting that something reduced our ancestors numbers by ~99% a little under a million years ago) and yet this particular strain remains.

[wartywhoa23]

The whole history of the humankind is akin to that passage of Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis. The further into it, the narrower it becomes. And exponentially at that...

Thank you for sharing your hopes for the better outcome no matter what, I'm with you on this.

[LorenPechtel]

What would a Neanderthal say about this?

What would a Denesovian say about this?

[jungturk]

More generally, what would _any_ collapsed society or extinct evolutionary branch have to say?

"Not much", outside of what they'd contributed to any surviving lines.

To your point, whether we're winning or losing very much depends on how we define our team.