So my buddy who is a professor at Stanford said one of his students did a paper on the future fall of humanity and how it could be avoided. The only answer he could come up with is the discovery of life on another planet. He said that was the only thing that could bring humanity together and stop the future collapse of the human race.
He went on talking about Lions another alpha species and how they would eat their own so the stronger ones could survive if given no other choice. Talks about how as humans we have no threat other than ourselves. The threat of another alpha race in another galaxy would change our worlds view and be the only thing that could actually bring humanity together. It would make us realize we are more alike and have a bigger threat then ourselves.
We need to find aliens I guess.