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Saving Humanity By Rushing To Space

Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are trying to provide a solution to an inevitable problem: Humanity’s thirst for growth and the endless exploitation of natural resources will eventually ‘finish off’ our planet and there is a chance we may become extinct(not to mention the 8.7 million other species).

According to these wealthy men, if our species is present and thriving on other planets, it won’t be filtered out by evolution after some time.

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The Problem Everyone Is Bored Of Listening

Climate change is real, but as it is slow and poses less of an existential risk right now, it is mostly ignored. We forget that by turning a blind eye to the climate crisis, billions of people will suffer in the coming years due to floods, hurricanes, wildfires and many other nat...

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Rich People With Their Expensive Rockets

In the middle of an unpredictable pandemic, climate crisis, global unrest and inequality, a couple of extremely wealthy men took space rides in their multi-million dollar spaceships.

The efforts may seem like vanity projects, but there is underlying motivation to colonize space, a g...

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Cosmic Ambitions In History

  • The discovery of the atom’s inherent power provided hope to many scientists that they could build powerful rockets that can reach beyond our solar system.
  • Russian rocketeer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote about using nuclear-powered devices to settle inside asteroids, migrating to other...

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Galactic Colonization

Texts written in the last 300 years imagine the universe filled with different kinds of humanoids and rich elements, not with infinitely empty, barren and uninhabitable planets.

The recent realization that our species could go extinct, and our beautiful planet could one day be non-livable f...

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The Bullerby Scenario: The Planet We Are Killing

  • In our quest to conquer space, we have messed up and ignored our home planet, which is a great vessel by itself.
  • Planet Earth is a big spaceship with millions of species, plenty of water, plant life and heat from the nearby sun.
  • We still don’t know much about the millions of ...

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Taking Back Our Earth

Before we venture into colonizing the galaxy, pushed by overzealous, egocentric billionaires, we could fix urgent problems on our own planet.

Problems like the climate crisis, social justice, human trafficking, hyper-capitalism and inequality can only be solved by humanity-wide proj...

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