To be fair given that there were five or so previous mass extinction events before this one something else would have eventually come to take us out even if apes never learned how to use tools.

This is the moment where we either consciously take up the reins of the planet to harmoniously guide and protect it's development or we will unconsciously kill ourselves. Literal do or die shit

Stopping our own self inflicted mass extinction event is just the tutorial mission before we face many more dangerous terrestrial extinction events