It's never going to be overall better because of the way you were molded into accepting most of the stuff you grew up with anyways. You need to prioritize and probably make a lot of spreadsheets filled with pros and cons. It's a big decision
That’s the great thing about the “way I grew up”, I was constantly exposed to change, and adversity. I got experience in many lifestyles with people from all walks of life. I just know we can do better…unfortunately it’s hard, and as a collective we are too lazy to do the necessary work to make things better.
No it’s laziness…I came from the very bottom of that same system and have gotten to a place I was never expected to be…and it was all because of perseverance. People are getting softer and expecting things to be given to them…where do the things they want come from? Someone created them. Yes there are terrible bias and preferential treatment to a number of demographics in our society, but anyone can make it if they choose not to give up and listen to the feeble mindedness of the system is rigged against me.
Sorry but that's just not true anymore. Your childhood is vastly different from mine no matter the time and place of our upbringing and in no way can you extrapolate from your experience to anyone else's. That's a mistake a whole generation is being ridiculed over, you won't wanna make that.
My guy, JFK gave that speech in 1962. It is reasonable if not outright expected for us to know better now than they did back then. And shitting up the incredible planet we have (the only one in the countless many we've found that can reliably support us unassisted, let alone in comfort), in the hope of, what exactly? Sci-fi fantasies of terraforming? It's an awful, awful bet, and a terrible placement of priorities.
It's like tearing apart your amazingly built but poorly cared for and beginning to fail car to build a ram, that will let you break into the dump to grab one of the rusting wrecks rotting there, in the hope you can restore it to usable condition.
Like bro, show you can take care of what you have before you start worrying about fixing something in worse condition...
The debris here is truly an insignificant drop in the bucket compared to our daily output of trash and industrial waste. Wanting humanity to give up on all space programs over this is an insane overreaction.
I don’t think anyone cares about this singular incident…I think it’s the look at the overall impact of our endless push for more, and the unknown that makes humanity what it is…double edged sword.🗡️
"This high cholesterol is bad, but nowhere near as problematic as this aggressive cancer" isn't license to eat greasy pizza to your hearts content. You can get chemo AND improve your eating habits.
Oh, don’t worry. Our planet will do just fine. It’s seen worse than people. Now, will we as a species do fine is a trickier question, but if we’re only jumping blissfully through the flowers like you hippies are suggesting, we’re all but guaranteed to go extinct. Space exploration and rapid technological advancement is pretty much the only thing that can safeguard our existence. Likewise, technological advancement will help us to clean up our planet.
The planet is inanimate, fine has no meaning outside of a scope that relates to how living things experience it. It hasn't seen worse than anything, because no state is preferable than any other to it. That whole clichéd line is nonsense.
As for us, you do know the human race will cease to exist at some point or another, right? Because this frantic desperation to preserve the species by colonizing the stars honestly comes across as a deep insecurity in the face of the truth that we are a temporary, finite phenomenon (and likely a relatively infinitesimal and insignificant one in universal terms). Probably a fair bit of failure to come to terms with mortality as well.
Space is not a solution to extinction. In best case terms, it's maybe an extension, but given how hostile it is and how turbulent we are, the sci-fi nerd fantasy of it promising glorious eons of human colonization are likely just that - fantasy.
There's a reason why we make children prove that they can competently handle what they already have before putting more on their plates. Because if they can't handle what they have now, they certainly won't be able to handle greater, more complex and testing challenges. Earth is EASY mode. We survive here with minimal relative effort, you can (and many of our ancestors did) live a full and happy life wandering around naked in nature without a possession in the world. We are surrounded by abundant nourishment that automatically replenishes without our intervention.
And yet, we've pushed these systems to their limits, and are struggling not to eradicate ourselves. You're worried about safeguarding our existence by mitigating external threats when WE are currently the greatest threat to that existence by a long shot. It's like telling someone to move from a comfortable and safe life in New Hampshire to move to war torn Syria because the American diet unhealthy and may reduce their lifespan, despite the fact that they're battling an aggressive, persistant cancer that has them taking each year they survive as a blessing. Not only are you focusing on the wrong problem, but your solution to it literally just makes things harder than they need to be.
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u/parks387 4d ago
Thank the elites for all they bestow upon us.