What happened to Venus is a pretty good motivator for sustainability and limiting global warming, no? How about the Earth-observing satellites that are monitor

What happened to Venus is a pretty good motivator for sustainability and limiting global warming, no? How about the Earth-observing satellites that are monitoring key environmental variables (http://oco2.jpl.nasa.gov http://oco2.jpl.nasa.gov), or the exoplanet spectroscopy studies that will see how common different atmospheres are (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/habex/ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/habex/) ?