"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying. Like you’re going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take the time to imagine the impossible. That maybe you survive." - The Ninth Doctor

Humans have been predicting their own demise since there have been humans. What must the Romans have thought when Pompeii was buried by Vesuvius? What must the people of London thought at the height of the Bubonic Plague? What must the Aztecs have thought when Pizarro swept the continent? “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

Maybe instead of collectively imagining our own demise we should collectively work towards survival?