Obama should be proud of me that I integrated black slanglish into my vernacular. Political correctness is morphing from a harmony strategy to survival as it always does at times where Godwin's law applies.

We probably have (or could develop) the technology to deal with an Ice Age so I think the greater threat is collective man.

Preventing asteroid strikes require a collective effort because there is no individual profit motive, thus I doubt we can deal with them effectively. Fortunately they are long-tail events. We probably can mitigate this threat by populating other planets and space. Paradigm shifting the problem space is one of my favorite creative strategies for solving problems.