Face it, that happens whatever we do. If we as a nation played the way Hussein and Arafat play, then Iraq would be a glowing glassy plain right now. This quiet Earth, this turning wheel of a cosmos cares not. Whether we go on or not matters hardly at all, except to us. Well, some of us, anyway.
News is about unhappy people.
Revolution is about a lot of unhappy people. There aren't enough unhappy people yet. But there's a tipping point, though probably not a balance. The universe gave us a place to live - a lot of us do that quite badly. However, it's been less bad than on average over the last 150 years or so.