Except that all of those problems I mentioned are basically man-made, and the solutions are manifestly available to us... if only we'd care to get our act toget

Except that all of those problems I mentioned are basically man-made, and the solutions are manifestly available to us... if only we'd care to get our act together. In the face of the Black Death, our species was basically helpless (and there doesn't seem to be any scientific consensus yet as to how, exactly, it "ended.")