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The future of humanity seems uncertain. Rapid climate change, political division, our greed and our weaknesses make it difficult to see our species in a positive light. Many people believe that our end is near. But humans have always thought that they are living in the end times. Each generation takes itself so seriously that they think they are the ones who will live through the apocalypse - and then life goes on anyway. This way of thinking is a problem because it leads us to think very short-term and prevents us from creating the best possible world for ourselves and our descendants. This is all the worse because we may actually be living at a critical point in human history. To understand why this is the case, let's look at the time frame of humanity and ask ourselves: When will the last human be born, and how many people will there ever be in total? Sources: https://sites.google.com/view/sources... Things Explained - Kurzgesagt is a science channel that explains complex topics from space research, physics, biology, politics, philosophy and technology in a simple and understandable way in animated form. We publish a new video in German every two weeks. Sometimes translations from our English-language channel, sometimes exclusive content for the German market. Since September 28, 2017, Things Explained - Kurzgesagt has been an offering from funk: YouTube: / funkofficial Instagram: / funk TikTok: / funk Website: https://go.funk.net Imprint: https://go.funk.net/impressum