Oh yeah, on the level of Extinction Events, we haven’t survived one yet. Hopefully we will in some way, shape or form (hopefully as ourselves), but you never know. That’s why i said, or tried to say, “worry, but don’t claw your hair off because of it just yet”. Because if that punch is coming, there’s no sense in worrying about it–better to brace for it as best we can, you know?

When i said “we’ve survived worse before” tho, it was in response to the OP’s worries of the state of the United States. The question itself was kinda broad and they didn’t really get specific, but at the same time…i highly doubt this is the worst it’s gotten for the States (or any country, really) besides in the area of climate change, but that’s not exclusive to the US, that’s everwhere.