THIS should be the top story for every news outlet on the planet

[misanthrope]

29. Nothing in the report is revelatory

Its information and postulations have been readily accessible to anyone for many decades now. There's a reason Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Sixth Extinction" won a 2015 Pultizer Prize.

The issue has been that people had to be curious enough to want to see it and objective enough to accept it but those are rare commodities among humans. What's not in short supply is our willful ignorance and delusion.

The biosphere is likely to survive in some form. Speciation will continue but we just won't be around to see it.

For a while now, astronomers have pondered the lack of evidence for abundant advanced life throughout the galaxy. One of the hypotheses was that a Great Filter exists which weeds out many burgeoning civilizations from enduring. Some said it took the form of warfare, others that it was technology. For humans, that filter was simply our nature.