Catastrophes are only catastrophes when they happen to conscious beings. Every days, stars explode and planets are torn to pieces. None of it matters because t

Catastrophes are only catastrophes when they happen to conscious beings. Every days, stars explode and planets are torn to pieces. None of it matters because there's nobody for it to matter to. Moreover, any catastrophe on the table that humans can forseeably produce is nothing compared to nature. Pop off every nuke we've got in coral reefs, burn every forest into CO2 and dump all our toxic water in pristine rivers - the total effect will be nothing next to a decent-sized supervolcano eruption or asteroid strike. And that's not even getting into stellar events.