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If we focus our efforts on colonizing space instead of trying to save this planet first, humanity will never get to colonize another planet. Terraforming or ev
by fnordian_slip 4y ago
If we focus our efforts on colonizing space instead of trying to save this planet first, humanity will never get to colonize another planet.
Terraforming or even just permanently living self-sufficiently on Mars is many orders of magnitude harder than stopping global warming, and you see how well we are doing there.
Mars is more hostile than earth even after a long time of humans fucking it up.
- aeternum 4y agoGlobal warming has been blown way out of proportion. The steep decline in cost of solar panels and wind turbines over the last 10 years is already enough to solve the problem. Oil will simply be more expensive and that's what will trigger change. People vote with their wallets, only a tiny proportion of the population has the luxury of doing anything but. Foolish to try to appeal to morality when most of the world lives paycheck to paycheck or worse. On Mars we actually do want to create global warming and a greenhouse effect, so it's good that we know how :D