In christianity an angel is said to be pure and good, a medium of God's power which exist to execute God's will. The bible suggests that if you give an angel free-will, it'll turn into a demon. That in it self is a testiment to what it meens to be human.

You're right to say that we are going to creat a self enduced extinction but you need to realise that theres nothing we can do to stop it.

We make tools, we've been doing it since we were monkeys. After all, necessity is the mother of all inventions. Now whether its tools of war or tools of survival these tools them selfs are the ones that are gonna play a role in our extiction.

Its no secret that the smarter we get the better our tools become, and the better our tools become, the more variable our path of extenction gets.

Today we live in a world where only 10% of the earths population could live in a primitive enviroment becuase we've been relying more and more on technology to do our dirty work for us.

We've got scientists that can easily make the hiroshima bomb look like a watermellon seed.

And terrorists to political leaders thretning to nuke densly populated area's.

You get the idea right? Technology is getting us closer and closer to our own extiction. Our very own tools are evolving faster than we are. Its simply a lot easyer to kill somebody these days compared to when we were still learning how to creat fire. Ironic--- our very own insctict for survival is leading us to our own extenction.

Religion was intended to help counter this sort of behaviour. In other words, it was simply created to moraly resitrict free-will so that we don't end up killing each other. The unfortunate thing today is that many of us disreguard religion's importance or just see it as non-sense.

Now our free will is only restricted by the laws we are required to follow. And how are you suppost to dipend on people who's free-will is enforced by a corrupt system such as law enforcement?

Man's hunger for curiosity and our instict for survival is where all this problem began... how are you support to take that away from human nature?

Anyways, the point im trying to make is that humanity was doomed to begin with and there's nothing anyone of us can do to prevent any self inflicted damages from dicipating. The path we're leading ourselfs to is evident enough that the nature of our speices is a violent one. Peace is just a temporary bandage of war, and a biproduct of political exhaustion.

The only thing we can do is live our lifes in the bliss of ignorance and cope with the idea that some day tomorow might be our last day on earth.

Don't forget that 'our hunger for curiosity' also lead us to improvements in protecting other species from becoming extinct. Sure, we've done enough wrong for this planet to take but some of us are also correcting what we've done to the environment by protecting any endangered species and finding a way we can co-exist.

Also, Glen makes some good points but in someway I have disagree with some of your statements. I see a brighter future for our planet so long as we find better ways to deal with each other. Maybe it’s unlikely that we ever will find that but it can’t hurt to be an optimist.