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Hopefully they will have de-orbited by then and we would have found a better solution. But then we may not have too many generations left anyway.
I'm surprised if most of humanity makes it through the coming 20 years.
I think we have seen our best decades already.
The good news is that people have been saying this for decades.
The bad news is that it doesn't say much about current events.
The good news is that it gives us a useful heuristic to ignore the uninformed and unsupported moaning of "we're dooooomed" without needing to spend any additional effort. Leaves more time for dealing with meaningful discussion.
Further back than that. Centuries if not millenia. It just was a different flavor of apocalypse back then.