Why Not Just Fix Things Here?
"...why not just fix Earth? That must be easier. . . Why waste money and resources by throwing them away on outer space?
Unfortunately, it isn't easier. In fact, it's quite impossible.
There's one simple fact that trumps all the arguments . . .That simple fact is tha"t we humans are here. We're here all over the place. Anyone who thinks there is a chance of reining us in now is simply ignoring who we are, and how many of us there are. Even more importantly, ignoring how many more of us there are now than there were when you read the first "how many of us there are." Our population is already too big, and it's getting bigger all the time--at exponential rates.
It's humans who are driving the ecosystem in exactly the opposite direction from that in which it needs to go. The largest failing of the environmental movement is its insistence that there's still time, if only we start doing the right thing.
Logically, of course, that's a true statement. If we were to start doing the right thing, it could all be saved. But . . . while the logic of "do the right thing" is unassailable, it is also true that if wishes were horses then beggars would ride; if money didn't rule politics, you, my friend, would be President of the United States, and I would like caviar. If your uncle on your father's side is a monkey, then two plus two is three billion.
All unassailably correct. Logically. An implication that begins with a false premise is always a "true implication."
By the time humans, as a species, start "doing the right thing," horses will have mastered flight and will wish they were as good at it as the pigs.