We can correct a lot of the damage through geo engineering, massive projects designed to directly affect the environment. You see versions of this in sci fi and games like Deus Ex Human Revolution.
Earth is too valuable a commodity to just let go as even if we go to the stars, having a planet that can sustained OUR life will always be needed as a template for terraforming new planets.
That’s assuming the “gradualist” framework is correct, but I think the work of people like Carlson, Schoch, and the rest pretty well prove that we need to be operating from a “catastrophist” point of view. If these shifts are catastrophic instead of gradual then our ability to mitigate their effects are going to be fundamentally more limited.
But I agree with your point that earth isn’t some eggshell to be abandoned. Did you watch the follow up or are you just basing that on my one sentence about a future in the stars? I think his follow up adds a lot of important context to what I was meaning there
Didn't watch the follow up but that's been a long held belief of mine that we need to HEAVILY invest in space.....DECADES ago but start now too!
Just for resources alone, like you know something we're short on Earth of? Helium. That's something we use to make fibre optic cables.
There is an asteroid located in the belt that is MAJORITY Helium, that could not just fill our requirements but oversupply us. The first person to do space mining basically has Earth's economy by the balls because you can oversupply EVERYTHING by mining the right one of those asteroids and tank an economy in seconds if you felt like it.
How do you think this can be made into a mainstream issue? It seems like practically no one with power or a voice is saying these things except maybe Musk and (with far less reach) a couple niche podcasts
There's a reason it's suppressed other than the cost and effort to do it: control.
A LOT of the mechanisms of control on this planet work on the principle of limited resources, space travel completely nullifies that. The only things I can think of that could retain their authority in a space age is ironically religion and we see how much the western powers have worked to undermine that.
We can correct a lot of the damage through geo engineering, massive projects designed to directly affect the environment. You see versions of this in sci fi and games like Deus Ex Human Revolution.
Earth is too valuable a commodity to just let go as even if we go to the stars, having a planet that can sustained OUR life will always be needed as a template for terraforming new planets.
That’s assuming the “gradualist” framework is correct, but I think the work of people like Carlson, Schoch, and the rest pretty well prove that we need to be operating from a “catastrophist” point of view. If these shifts are catastrophic instead of gradual then our ability to mitigate their effects are going to be fundamentally more limited.
But I agree with your point that earth isn’t some eggshell to be abandoned. Did you watch the follow up or are you just basing that on my one sentence about a future in the stars? I think his follow up adds a lot of important context to what I was meaning there
Didn't watch the follow up but that's been a long held belief of mine that we need to HEAVILY invest in space.....DECADES ago but start now too!
Just for resources alone, like you know something we're short on Earth of? Helium. That's something we use to make fibre optic cables.
There is an asteroid located in the belt that is MAJORITY Helium, that could not just fill our requirements but oversupply us. The first person to do space mining basically has Earth's economy by the balls because you can oversupply EVERYTHING by mining the right one of those asteroids and tank an economy in seconds if you felt like it.
How do you think this can be made into a mainstream issue? It seems like practically no one with power or a voice is saying these things except maybe Musk and (with far less reach) a couple niche podcasts
There's a reason it's suppressed other than the cost and effort to do it: control.
A LOT of the mechanisms of control on this planet work on the principle of limited resources, space travel completely nullifies that. The only things I can think of that could retain their authority in a space age is ironically religion and we see how much the western powers have worked to undermine that.