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Disagre here, I think it would have been very hard to tell the Romans during Nero and the Barrack room emporers thatthat wasn't end times. Also, there is proof mankind has almost always thought of his demise. The Book of Revelations is a good example, as is some of Socrates and Plato's teachings and Nostradamus.
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I don't agree. While the Romans might have believed it was the end of Rome and John might have forseen the end of days both scenarios still didn't entail complete human extinction. Even in Revelations there is talk of the people who don't live in the city of gold and essentially a human existence carrying on. What I am really talking about is complete and total human extinction, not just life as we know it or most people.
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I believe this is giving us far too much credit. The Earth (nature) has far more powerful forces than that we EVER will have, that being said, and my belief that Earth itself is living and growing in it's own way has ways to protect itself from our abuses. I think the Earth gows through many cycles (El Nino,El Nina, the ice age etc.) and those are nature's ways of healing the Earth.
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I think we might have a misunderstanding here. I meant what I said earlier in that the Earth and life on it is not going anywhere. However, the Earth correcting the damage we cause can kill us through the far more powerful forces that you mentioned. I dare say though that the doesn't cause fussion or fission reactions, though it does occur naturally in stars. The point is we now have the power to wipe ourselves out if we aren't careful either through war or unchecked development.