No. That’s my whole point. “Normal” on a geological time scale is completely irrelevant to humans, whose society is built on a tiny stable slice of that timefr

No. That’s my whole point. “Normal” on a geological time scale is completely irrelevant to humans, whose society is built on a tiny stable slice of that timeframe. Geological time scale “normal” includes many states that are not survivable for our societies. What we care about is normal relative to our cozy state that we have now.