The planet will survive with or without our intervention, & it won't be a human that destroys it!
We have in the centuries past faced many catastrophic diseases & survived them most of them have been blamed by the church as a punishment from God for humans misdemeanours, in actuality in a way it was humans who caused the diseases in the way our houses were built , lack of hygiene etc, only when the diseases were understood & how they spread did the way in which with live start to change.& if indeed it was a punishment from God what does it say about all the so called teachers of gods word who also succumbed to these very same diseases even now a particular disease has been used as a punishment from God& yet the church now allows the very same people to practice in the church etc, with these double standards is it any wonder their teachings hold no water. I hasten to add I use this as an example & for no other reason!.