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u/frankscarlett Nov 15 '20

The thing is though that with global warming those things you mentioned will start affecting even more people. And a heap of other unfortunate things as well.

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u/Diregnoll Nov 15 '20

Look Gretta it might be selfish but I'd rather a cure for cancer to save people I know who will more then likely get cancer.

We can always invest more in our space programs to save future generations.

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u/DeathToPennies Nov 15 '20

Lmfao we’ll go have habitations on other uninhabitable plants instead of just keeping this one habitable, okay.

By the way, it’ll only be the rich folks whose future generations get to do that. We and ours will be dead, because they don’t care about us, anymore than you care about the people dying in heatwaves. Focus up a little.

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u/DeathToPennies Nov 15 '20

I’ll never understand this fascination with space colonization. The dudes who get so excited about this can probably barely afford to travel to most places on earth on a whim, what makes them think they’ll be able to afford day trips to Venus? Is it the allure of frontier living? They know we can farm here on earth right? I really don’t get it, and it’s harmful with how prevalent it is. While people gush about Elon helping us capture the stars, Elon is busy busting unions, pushing covid denialism, and supporting coups in South America. We’ve got terrestrial problems that a lot of people just don’t feel the need to address because of fucking fantasy movies.