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We need to leave the planet? For where?
For a planet that's completely incapable of sustaining life?
Do you realize that it'll take many, many orders of magnitude more resources, time, and effort to make literally any other celestial body within several years of space flight of us capable of sustaining life than it will be to fix the habitable planet we have right here?
We're not getting off this rock without stabilizing it enough to sustain us long-term first. And by then, we won't need to leave. Either way, though, evacuating isn't a viable solution.
And if you don't believe me, go talk to some biologists.
Gotta do it eventually dude or this will be our grave.
It’s strange to me that you can have the foresight to see the existential threat that is climate change, but not the risk of having all of our eggs in one basket.
You’ve also moved the goalposts. Your original argument was that they pollute so much and use so many finite resources that they’re bad. Is this no longer your argument?
You’re never going to convince me that space exploration is something we should stop.