That may be so, but people who want to go to space aren't doing it to stop us damaging the environment, any more than people who built the Large Hadron Collider

That may be so, but people who want to go to space aren't doing it to stop us damaging the environment, any more than people who built the Large Hadron Collider or filmed all the Marvel super hero films are. They are doing it because it's possible and they want to do it. You don't single them out as unproductive in your quest to fix the planet. Why?