After last few years, between our handling of the epidemic, global politics, resource management, warming, and the near impossibility of ever obtaining consensu

After last few years, between our handling of the epidemic, global politics, resource management, warming, and the near impossibility of ever obtaining consensus about any given fact, I'm kinda worried. Some would deny an asteroid was coming, clinging to their profits or parties or deities by FUDing the astronomers and engineers. Some would say let's put all all our effort to get some people off planet, at least into long term orbit (Stephenson's Seveneves), to save the gene pools. Begin debating who goes. Some would say don't waste any resources on the orbit plan: put everything we have into deflecting the asteroid so it misses Earth altogether. We should start now, today, learning how to build a planetary consensus about everyday things before we're faced with an urgent extinctor. We already ushered in the long term one.