If intelligence and awareness of humanity were to be more advanced and developed, then the idea that human activities will led to extinction might seem to be impossible. In retrospect, past extinctions happened not because of self-driven causes but from natural events. Now these natural events in the present are mostly identified and have been compensated with various methods of prevention and mitigation because the capability of the human brain unlike any other species ever roamed on the surface of the Earth. 
 Issues relating natural abnormality even now, are being compensated for instance, earlier this year, humanity had successfully deflect an asteroid; it might seem to change a little bit on its orbit yet this proved that humans can, in the upcoming years, compensate a celestial impact from space. With the issues we're having in the world, awareness and action are just as needed to be able to re-program our lifestyles to adapt natural changes caused by us. With that being discussed, if things go smoothly with our development, we might ascend to another level of being humans or perhaps become interstellar explorers because after all, in about 5 billion years or so, our world will meet its end.