“I bought a ZYBERTRUKKK because I care about the environment” excuses have never sounded more hollow.

  • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    This is what I tell people. Like even the most climate change addled earth is immensely more habitable for humans than Mars is.

    If we solve our problems here… Ya know by ending capitalism… Then we can start doing truly badass humanity spanning achievements. Terra forming mars? Why not give it a go once we’ve got everyone fed and housed here. Surely it’d be a cool project. But as a solution? Entirely foolish.

      • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        3 days ago

        Literally. The Sahara with 50 years of more climate change will be more habitable than 50 years of intensively terra forming the best parts of mars…

        And yet the unrealistic thing is simply stopping climate change.

        • vegeta1 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          3 days ago

          I’m reading the book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought this Through? Sheesh some things I haven’t considered.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      3 days ago

      Also if humanity actually does become interplanetary. What kind of precedent do we set with how we take care of our home planet? It creates a culture of hyperdisposability. Consoom all the resources on one planet, then hop off its carcass to the next.

      Then we won’t exactly be “interplanetary” then, just us on one planet we haven’t ruined yet. And I’m saying this while humoring Elons initial delusions.