In HR, we have a saying...

[Woodsprite]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

Civilized humans still have to face an asteroid impact the size of the one on the KT boundary (or whatever else has caused rock layers indicating devastation worldwide) like the dinosaurs did. Civilized humans still have to face an alien species that has superior weapons and hunts them down like the Dodo. Civilized humans still have to face climate change on the scale of the passing of the last ice age like the Mammoths did. Humans actually did face the change of the ice age. Sea levels rising some hundreds of feet, Climate zones shifting - they could adapt, they were flexible, hunting, gathering, travelling to new regions. Nowadays just a measly 2 meters of sea level rise would devastate most of the coastal cities and thereby bring civilization to the brink. An asteroid? We would not have a clue how to deal with that one either - there are no viable ideas how to avoid an impact and if an impact happens, civilized life would end as well. Maybe some people could survive by living on the life that still exists in the aftermath, but without large numbers of people and an extensive infrastructure, civilization would go away.

We are becoming more and more technologically aware that an asteroid may not be a problem for us to deal with; at least, not one that's impossible to deal with.

The point is that we survived the ice age (like you mentioned), and are perfectly capable of surviving it again, just as we are capable of surviving an asteroid or... aliens? Right.

Animals are not capable of surviving such events because they are not rational like humans are. It's the misconception that humans are equal to animals in all aspects that makes anyone think otherwise. Humans are superior. I'm sorry; we are. We're more capable, we're more equipped, and we're more intelligent. The dinosaurs, the dodo bird, and the mammoth were not.