Think about how many people and resources are already devoted to those Earthly problems though. I'm not saying that they're not still huge problems, but Elon s

Think about how many people and resources are already devoted to those Earthly problems though. I'm not saying that they're not still huge problems, but Elon seems to be one of the only people that's seriously and realistically trying to tackle the the need for an interplanetary insurance policy. As someone else in this thread mentioned, solving hunger disease, and violence doesn't really do anything to address most of the extinction-level threats.