You phrase this as a rhetorical question, as if it's obvious that given "the way things are going today", of course we won't survive. I don't really know what

You phrase this as a rhetorical question, as if it's obvious that given "the way things are going today", of course we won't survive. I don't really know what you're referring to. On a century-long scale, what is "going on today" that is so abnormally terrible?