Intelligence is an Evolutionary Dead End

I started a thread with this subject at Dawkins' forum many years ago.

Dawfins' fan club lost their **** over it at the time, but nothing convinced me I was wrong.

Now, I see NASA largely agrees: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf

Quote:

We postulate that an existential disaster may lay in wait as our society advances exponentially towards space exploration, acting as the Great Filter: a phenomenon that wipes out civilizations before they can encounter each other, which may explain the cosmic silence.

Climate change is the obvious Great Filter we're charging towards.