Failure is an evolutionary norm. Success is rare, simultaneous success even more so.

My take on Fermi's where is everybody question:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/dont-look-up-look-back-why-study-history-part-two-2229b27aa0a0

Rarely successful intelligent life that scales its civilization through harnessing agriculture and then fossil fueled industry that yields interstellar travel technology will tend to hit the unsustainability energy-temperature wall before it gets to Kardashev level 1. Civilization is a cherry blossom.