The earth is our home. It provides us with the natural resources that we need in order to survive and flourish. However, as our civilizations have advanced, so has our technology, population, and poverty number...and the land that was once abundant has become scarce, diseased, and polluted. Can we begin the road to life and protection?
Here's an idea. Why worry about the world's problems, when we can just go to the moon? That will solve all of our problems, right? We can start all over! New land, new life, new explorations, new reasons to visit the moon... Or would we rape the moon, just as we have destroyed the earth?
NASA is coming up with more reasons as to why we should continue travel to the moon (check out Lunar Exploration Objectives @ nasa.gov). It will help with our space exploration and provide for global partnerships. Machines and robotic vehicles are currently testing the living environment on the moon to prepare them for the future of "earthlings". Scientists believe that by the year 2020, we will have set up permanent colonies on the moon. After that, we take over Mars.
What do you think? Is it too risky? Are we going to deplete another environment on the moon? Or will this be one more step towards advancing the human race? Can we save the earth before we begin the process of moving to the moon? Or will we avoid population issues and continue to evacuate millions to the moon? When will we begin to conserve our resources, population, and hunger for MORE, MORE, MORE!?? Or is NASA really finding new and innovative ways to learn and grow as a specie.
Visit this site and watch the video on Human Civilization on the Moon.
2 comments:
Wow, a great post, Demi! As for as Moon and Mars are concerned there are issues that we face. No oxygen,water in the frozen form,and very low temperatures. Many scientists are thinking about Terraforming (changing Mars and Moon to make them habitable planets like the Earth, but that is going to take thousands of years. And within that much time we will be able to destroy everything alive!
I think that a "Spacial Sprawl" of sorts would be a mixed blessing. For example, it would give us room to expand the human race, but only the imminently rich and cavalier would consider it. In addition, it would provide a safe haven in case something, such as an asteroid or something, threatened Earth. On the flip side, it would also continue the trend of frivolous waste we have started within the past 50-70 years, exemplifying taking the "easy way out" of danger. I really think that, before we jump ship and give up on our problems, that we should confront our global issues and search for a solution, as you mentioned. I think that should the need arise to take refuge on Mars or the Moon, we can coexist with the atmosphere instead of creating another global climate crisis.
I personally think that colonization of space is an exciting prospect, one that I'll be keeping my eye on.
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