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Originally Posted by el_draco
I disagree, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that we can live sustainably on this planet. We did so quite well until the start of the industrial revolution and that only really started to have an impact a couple of hundred years ago.
What's lacking is political and individual will on a significantly large scale.... but that's changing, finally. People are by-passing politicians and going it alone. The major issue is population and we ignore that at our peril but either way, it'll come down substantially in the next few generations, probably decades, in many areas. We are now a technological society and that offers a huge advantage long term, just have to survive the era of greed and ego and starting putting our house in order again...
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++1. Very well said.
Greed and ego are the bigger issues, they drive the economy of money, and there is never enough of that for the rich. Its not religion, its greed and money thats the problem. Religion is just used as an excuse.
Making Mars habitable is only a temporary step, we need to use it as a stepping stone.
If only we could stop fighting each other on this planet and put all the world's military resources into space travel. Ohh, what we could achieve.
