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The point isn't whether we can do that or not, but should we do it or not. In all these visions of techno-utopia, poor suffer the most while the rich exploit t
by paraschopra 7y ago
The point isn't whether we can do that or not, but should we do it or not.
In all these visions of techno-utopia, poor suffer the most while the rich exploit the resources, and then expand that exploitation to more areas in hopes of making a profit.
Why do you feel we will not do the same to Mars what has happened to the Earth? It's possible that once we go to Mars we will exploit _both_ Earth and Mars.
- baking 7y agoKardashev looked at the physics in 1964 and said that civilizations that don't grow fast enough (energy use requiring expansion to other planets) risk planetary catastrophes and would not be expected to survive many thousands of years. Sure Earth could get lucky, but betting on that seems irrational.
- paraschopra 7y agoIn the limit, all arguments of doom-and-gloom come true. The same argument of destruction of solar system, milky way and our galactic super-cluster can be made for different time scales. Even universe is expected to fizzle out. Though I agree there are no easy answers. Risk will always be there, but we should realize that hedging one type of risk exposes us to other types of risks.