I would love to see the human race enter a new age of enlightenment and actually work on surviving for the long term. But I just don't think it's in human nature to do that. We are just a bunch of animals, competing with each other and killing each other. Religion and economics inequalities keep us divided, greed is rampant.
Mankind wasn't meant to be anything special. We are just like the algae that forms and dies inside a petri dish. We are nothing special.