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>...who refuses to deal with the problems the species causes on earth The same person advocating most strongly for colonising Mars is, er, also responsible for
by simonh 6y ago
>...who refuses to deal with the problems the species causes on earth
The same person advocating most strongly for colonising Mars is, er, also responsible for bootstrapping solar, battery and EV technology, and having a good go at working on traffic congestion specifically to preserve the environment on Earth. In fact that was his first passion, and his interest in Mars originated from an attempt to raise awareness of environmental issues here. He's devoting huge resources, time and energy to solve Earthside problems. So I really don't see where you got this idea that colonising Mars is about abandoning Earth, what did you base that on?
- sofixa 6y ago> The same person advocating most strongly for colonising Mars is, er, also responsible for bootstrapping solar, battery and EV technology, and having a good go at working on traffic congestion specifically to preserve the environment on Earth. Is he? To an extent, but he's also extremely anti-better solutions that didn't originate with one of his companies. He thinks that digging thousands of tunnels for a vehicle per person is better for congestion than digging a significantly smaller amount of tunnels for rapid mass transit, which would cost less and is drastically better for the planet than everybody rolling around in a car, even a Tesla car. Solar has been a steadily growing thing before Tesla was, so i'm not sure you can credit him with anything there.
- simonh 6y agoHyper loop is literally a mass transit system. Ok, probably not all his ideas will pan out and ok maybe you prefer other solutions, but ‘refusing to deal with’ those problems? Really?