It's not simple and this mindset that "You stand in a field of diamonds" from the 19th-century prosperity gospel has caused immense harm in all kinds of different ways for as long as our civilization has believed ithttps://twitter.com/TheWholeTruthXX/status/1368176569286615042 …
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(semi serious aside: why Mars first? Why not focus on a moon colony first?)
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the roi on simply taking care of earth is so unimaginably vaster than the roi of colonizing other bodies! like, not only is it far easier, /all our shit is already here./ the return is immense!
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we're not actually short on land, or minerals, or food; the earth's capacity is just so immense--IF we actually take care of it instead of strip mining it for parts and burning our own life support systems
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i really like the idea of orbital solar energy farms, and also putting robots in a lot of other places to find stuff out, and also a lot of stuff starts to go wrong with bodies when they leave gravity for long periods of time
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