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Exponential functions. Seriously. You meet crisis after crisis, each having a risk of ending civilization, but that risk never goes away. It keeps multiplying and multiplying, until you realize the risk curve is approaching a vertical line
Why would risk go up over time? For humanity, we're pretty much at the point that very little could end our species now.
Well except, obviously, for humanity. That's our greatest enemy, and it seems to be shown more frequently.
We would be hard pressed to end our own species either. Even global thermonuclear war would end civilization but not our species.
Edit: This mf just jinxed humanity
~~Depends on the amount of nukes.~~
~~Acidifying oceans also dares a cascading effect that would wipe us out.~~
~~Disease.~~
~~Also, think about globale warming. The core of the sun is 27 million degrees. 130 degrees is enough to make the surface unbearable, higher than that is going to be>!!< uninhabitable.~~
~~Also let's not forget space is wild, meteors or GRBs can take us out instantly~~
Universe 25 experiment. My take away from it is when society gets bored and loses goals it's over. If the mice had some predators they probably wouldn't have collapsed. Humans don't have predators but have dreams that we worked toward amd stimulate us. Once we lose that it's like what happened Walle. Stuck in a system slowly dying full of apathy.