I pretty much completely disagree. Civilizations collapse all the time, generally with a big dose of hubris and self-inflicted wounds. Look at Easter Island, the Anasazi, Mayans, Incans, Norse/Vikings, etc... All of those people had a chance to course correct or invent solutions to the problems they were faced with and did not.
Within about 200,000 years, humans went from cavemen to being able to annihilate all life on our home planet save for maybe a few hardy cockroaches. Our population growth is outpacing our ability to solve the problems associated with overpopulation. And we're not close to putting a foot on our nearest neighboring planet in our solar system, let alone reaching across the galaxy to contact anything else that may be out there. Not because we aren't capable of fixing our problems or developing technology given an infinite amount of time, but because we'll argue over what the fuck is a problem right up until it becomes insurmountable and takes us out.
Could another form of life follow a different trajectory? Sure, but there's no evidence of it. I believe the far most likely scenario is that primordial life is fairly common, but intelligent life gets snuffed out long before it could really make itself known in the vast ocean of the Universe.