Extinction-level event

It’s way more likely than not that human extinction will precede the sun turning into a red giant and engulfing the planet.

It’s all but certain that humans will go extinct long before the sun swells into a red giant and swallows the Earth.

After all, 99.9% of all species that have ever existed are gone. Most don’t make it past 10 million years. A rare few—like sharks and crocodiles—remain relatively unchanged. But the rest either fail to adapt to changing environments and die out or evolve into something entirely new.

The way things are headed, we humans will be lucky to eke out another few generations. The way we’re changing our environments is unsustainable, and dysfunction is accelerating. We must evolve or die.

Fortunately, evolution is still on the table. We just have to get better at our niche.

Sharks got swimming and biting, so they became apex swimmers and biters.

Cheetahs got speed, so they maxed it out.

Humans? We got consciousness.

But here’s the twist: unlike every other known organic species, we don’t have to wait for natural selection or genetic mutations to evolve. We’ve already evolved to the point where we can choose to evolve—by using free will to upgrade the quality of our consciousness.

And it starts with something super simple: choosing to be more conscious.

That subtle shift could spark the greatest evolutionary leap since the first human thought, I am.

We’ll live as though what harms our neighbor harms us, and what heals our neighbor heals us.

The end of war, fear, and greed.

The birth of a new humanity bathed in peace, love, and light.

Heaven on Earth.

And that’s when humans will go extinct.

Because we’ll have evolved into something entirely new.