"... I also read about the many extinction events in the planets history and how things came back from each one, different than before. It is always possible t

"... I also read about the many extinction events in the planets history and how things came back from each one, different than before. It is always possible that humans will be the cause of the next major extinction even..." This is a description of the Holocene period. An informal term also used is the Anthropocene period. [1] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene