It would not be an exaggeration to say we are living in a time of crisis. Only the nature of the problem, and thus the means employed to find resolution, or at least release from the sensation of dread, is heavily disputed. Most accurately, we may look on an extinction or near-extinction event.
The best, and most inadequate answer thus may be that we have been here before. In many shapes, doomsday events and their witnesses and prophets have been preserved for posterity, adding to the general sensation that this cannot be the end times. Most people who are not profiting would like to see them, after all.
Unfortunately, this can not be said of an apocalyptic thermonuclear event, nor about the full implications of the climate catastrophe emerging through several (af)fronts. The question of rising temperatures aside, ground waters and mass extinction will gradually but very severely impact the conditions necessary to sustain life, and thus set in force other, human actions possibly exacerbating the dilemma. In short, human population and consumerism has stepped out of clear waters, now on an inexorable course to drown - or finally swim. And worse, it will not only involve a course of drastic and unprecedented vigour and innovation, but also the harder art of strategic self-discipline and holding back desires. Not a godly man myself (nor a godly woman) I do not appreciate this part, and will exhaust any possibility for alternative roads to the same ends; once I desire them, that is. And that already excludes a whole bunch.
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