The pandemic showed how quickly society can fracture under perceived threat. Now consider what a real cosmic or climatic event might do. He's not talking about extinction. He's talking about prolonged social disruption, the kind that takes decades to recover from, not weeks. The geological record shows these events have happened repeatedly in the last ten thousand years. They weren't mythical. They were real, measurable, and they reshaped civilizations. The question isn't whether it can happen again. The question is whether we're prepared when it does. If an imaginary crisis can shut down the world, what happens when the crisis is written in stone?
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