I think we can firmly place this article with every other "chicken little" alarmist crap produced in the hundreds every year since the 1800s.

i doubt whether humanity will collapse, albeit there are serious problems that always need to be addressed.

I have just been watching Germaine Greer being interviewed by Julia Zamiro. Germaine and her fellow students thought that capitalism was going to fail, even back then. Very perspicacious. It isn't doing very well at present so perhaps the author is onto something.
David

The author is missing the Roman Empire - which terrorized the world.

All that can be said about the author's fear-mongering was already addressed 1900 years ago in the parable of the fox and the fish, by Rabbi Akiva ([Berakhot 61:b]):

"It is like a fox walking along a riverbank when he sees fish gathering and fleeing from place to place.
The fox said to them: From what are you fleeing?
They said to him: We are fleeing from the nets that people cast upon us.
He said to them: Do you wish to come up onto dry land, and we will reside together just as my ancestors resided with your ancestors?
The fish said to him: You are the one of whom they say, he is the cleverest of animals? You are not clever; you are a fool. If we are afraid in the water, our natural habitat which gives us life, then in a habitat that causes our death, all the more so."

- http://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.61b.7

I thought this was an excellent article and highly thought-provoking. It seems we are "done for' on a number of fronts, not least climate change, and, as David Attenborough says: "We can only slow the decline, not stop it". Here's hoping though, that we can avert the Sixth Mass Extinction, given extinction is forever. Stabilising and reducing human population numbers before Nature does it for us is critical.

so evolution is crap. I have been saying it on olo for the best part of 20 years.