Perhaps. But have you considered the alternative?
I'd argue that the most powerful force in the history of Earth is not nature but instead a collective of human beings with the will to survive and prosper. When challenged and properly directed, our species can do miraculous things at a lightning pace. The ability to innovate has always been our greatest evolutionary strength. Unfortunately we're also lazy and egotistical so we have to be really have our backs against the wall to look past our tribal natures to achieve greatness.
What if we're not destined for extinction? What if, instead of being a species destined to eventually falter to natural forces or more likely our own hubris, what if instead we always manage to pull ourselves back from the brink?
Humans now inhabit every continent on this planet and indeed we have a permanent presence off our home world due to the ISS. "Space" is now a human colony, to a tiny degree. How many challenges have we had to overcome to get here? How many diseases, genocidal maniacs, nuclear threats and world changing events has our ancestors had to deal with for us to be sitting here now? Quite a lot when you think about it. We're pretty good at having sex and not dying which seems to be the measurement of success for species growth/continuation.
If you take an evidence based view on this, we've already survived various extinction level events from supervolcanoes to climate change to species extinction. Of course we have, that's how we're able to have this chat. What's to say that climate change won't be yet another transitional period for humanity where our economic, social and ethical system are rocked to their core but we endure like we always have? Seems more likely than the alternative.
I always think that people have an extremely pessimistic view of our species and its future and don't consider the idea that actually, we might be successful. We might colonise space, spread our seed across different Solar Systems and become a race that is multi-galactic thus almost impossible to wipe out. In my eyes it certainly seems more likely than the opposite view. Even if only 10 people survive, the species survives and repopulates with new lessons learnt. I can't see our future as anything but further evolution and adaptation. Technically OUR species might one day see its end but something that we'd recognise as evolving from homo sapien sapiens will be alive in a billion years.
