By way of introduction, and background thinking to this pod

A possible good world is waiting around the corner, but it needs our active “invitation”.
It will not happen by miracle, nor will it be led to us by agencies other than our own one human family (there is help, provided we do our share of the work that is needed to be done before it can arrive.

Paraphrasing some words of Peter Russell, We, as a species, are in an evolutionary exam situation and are undergoing a cosmic intelligence test. There is no guarantee that we will pass this test.
If we fail, we will probably be discarded as and evolutionary blind alley, an experiment that for one reason or another did not quite work out.
If we pass, our future stretches ahead into the next few billion years.

This is me now, Janos:
 If we use the human life time (say 80 years) as a metaphor, we are, as nature's children, barely 29 days young. It would be a crying shame for us if we could not grow up into a wondrous cosmic adulthood.
But this depends on us being able to transform the knowledge we have amassed about the world we live in, into wisdom.