Here, as I've said, the argument has to get quite speculative. But I do think the reasons for answering yes are stronger than many people especially many scientists and social scientists realize. Neither biological evolution nor human history is a smooth, steady process. Technological, geopolitical, and economic change seem ominously fast, and the fabric of society seems somehow tenuous. Weapons of mass destruction are cultivated by rogue regimes and New Age cults.
Nations seem less cohesive than before, afflicted by ethnic or religious or cultural faction.
Health officials seriously discuss the prospect of a worldwide plague the unspeakably gruesome Ebola virus, perhaps, or some microbe we don't yet know about, spread around the world by jet-propelled travelers. Even tropical storms seem to have grown more intense in recent decades, arguably a result of global warming. It sounds apocalyptic, and some religiously minded people think it literally is. They have trouble imagining that this rash of new threats could be mere coincidence especially coming, as it has, at the end of a millennium. Some fundamentalist Christians cite growing global chaos as evidence that Judgment Day is around the corner.