In context, if we look at the current state of humanity; sure some of our great minds have helped some (not all) of us to live pretty nice lives here on Earth. But on the whole, we're pretty good at screwing up basic things. Non-basic things, like for example having a Mars orbiter not crash into the planet, yeah, we screw those up too.

Anyway, I thought the OPs comment was likely more facetious than anything. Only in Hollywood can we expect a perfect ending.