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So many posts on here (and I suppose the original post too) are making this a binary argument "Either we fix Earth, or we go to Mars". What happened to doing b

So many posts on here (and I suppose the original post too) are making this a binary argument "Either we fix Earth, or we go to Mars". What happened to doing both? They're not incompatible with each other. We don't have to destroy Earth to build a Martian colony. We don't have to abandon the space program to fix climate change. Everyone's looking for a fight today.

palata 4y ago
Actually, more than Climate Change, we face an energy problem. The more we use fossil fuels, the greater the climate problem. But even if we keep burning oil, it's not unlimited. So sooner or later we will have to decide what we do with the energy we have, and at that point it conflicts. If the goal is to reach Mars in a hundred years, chances are that we run out of fossil fuel before that. Maybe we should start preparing for a world with less energy. And artistic performances like sending people on Mars don't sound like a constructive way to use that energy.