I outlined some of my thoughts on how we should move forward with the knowledge that supervolcanoes are a thing we are likely to encounter if we don't kill ourselves first:

We may not be able to predict supervolcanic eruptions, but a recent study published in the journal Nature indicates that there are characteristic processes that occur decades (perhaps even a century) before a major eruption. If volcanologists can gain a better understanding of these pre-eruption processes, we may be able to detect the next supereruption decades before the event. This would at least give us time to prepare (possibly avert?) disaster. Yet we have no official plan to deal with VEI-8 eruptions. Even the Long Now Foundation, an organization focused on promoting a 10,000 year framework to build our global civilization has no official stance or plan for dealing with a VEI-8 eruption. So what should we do? I would argue that our current knowledge of past supervolcanic eruption events indicate that they pose a significant risk to global stability. I also feel that it would be enormously irresponsible if our species did not develop a program analogous to the NASA PHO effort. So here is what I propose we must do: 1. We must gain as much data and knowledge of past supervolcanic eruptions as possible. 2. We must attempt to understand whether supervolcanic eruptions occur in any recognizable pattern on geologic time scales so that we can roughly estimate when we should expect the next major eruption. 3. We must fund volcanology research into better understanding the processes that occur decades (and even centuries) before a major eruption. 4. And we must start to hypothesize about technology and/or methods that could be used to prevent supervolcanic eruptions.