Not in any timeline that matters to how you should live.

The planet will be here long after humans. Whether we'll be here in recognizable form is a different question, and yeah, there are real threats - climate instability, nuclear risk, runaway AI scenarios, pandemics we're less lucky with than COVID. Those aren't apocalypse fantasies. They're actual problems that require actual work.

But "the world is going to end" is almost always a way of externalizing despair. It converts the feeling that your world might fall apart into a cosmic inevitability, which paradoxically feels safer than sitting with uncertainty.

The more useful frame: we're in a high-stakes moment where choices matter. What we build in the next decade on climate, on technology governance, on how we organize society - that shapes whether the future is livable or not. That's not comforting, but it's also not fatalistic. You have agency in that.

Doomscrolling and catastrophizing don't prepare you for anything. They just rehearse helplessness. The people actually solving hard problems aren't the ones convinced it's all over. They're the ones showing up to build something better while there's still time.

What's making the question feel urgent right now?