Was the Great War of 1914-18 the beginning of the end for humanity?

The twentieth century was the century of death:☠

1914-18 WW1 16.5 to 30 million deaths
1918-19 flu epidemic 17 to 30 million deaths
1917-20 Russian civil war 5 to 9 million deaths
1927-49 Chinese civil war 7.5 million deaths
1939-45 WW2 70 to 85 million deaths
1949-75 Vietnam war 1.1 to 4.2 million deaths
1967-70 Nigerian civil war 3 to 4.1 million deaths
1950-53 Korean War 3.5 to 4.5 million deaths
1979-89 Soviet Afghan war 1 to 3 million deaths
1910-20 Mexican civil war 1-2 million deaths
1961-91 Ethiopian civil war 2 million deaths

There were countless insurgencies and civil wars that added up to a million deaths each time to the total!

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Allelse · 36-40, M

No. This sort of thing is nothing new, it's just now we have a larger population, and machine guns. And bigger things that make a bigger bang and boneheads who think it's a good idea to tamper with agriculture for purely philosophical reasons. But war, genocide and all the rest is the usual. Humans are surprisingly resilient and it would take of combination of different events to make a dent.