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> I actually think the most "realistic" approach would be to ban space exploration until climate change is under control. Talk about cutting off one's nose to
by gameman144 5y ago
> I actually think the most "realistic" approach would be to ban space exploration until climate change is under control.
Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. If we're going down this road, why not take it all the way:
* Ban climate change research until hunger is under control
* Ban efforts to curb hunger until war is under control
* Ban efforts to stop war until disease is under control
- aeturnum 5y ago> If we're going down this road, why not take it all the way Hunger and war and disease all have the potential to make furthering space exploration impossible. For example, we just had a pandemic that impacted a lot of people? However, in general, all of those problems have existed for the entire span of human history. I am not concerned about any of them[1] damaging the earth's ability to be a base for launching humanity as an interstellar species. Climate change is different. It's especially different because of our inability to face it so far. If we had done the sensible thing and reacted to projections in the 70s by ramping down fossil fuel use, I'd consider is less severe. But we have not. [1] save nuclear way ofc