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Aug 19, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Imagine if we just took space colonization off the table. Completely. Forever. What would happen? What would happen to the way we think about our ecosystem? About our animal and plant cousins? About female reproductive sovereignty? About war and nuclear weapons? 1/7
I suspect this notion that we can escape our problems by fleeing to the stars causes a great deal more unwholesome thinking that we like to acknowledge. Instead of going for broke and pouring all our energy into fixing our problems here, we're betting on an escape into space. 2/7
We don't even know that it's possible for humans to live outside the biosphere from which we evolved. We're not really separate from it. The closest we've come to living in space so far is glorified scuba excursions. That's the difference between flying and jumping. 3/7
The idea of humans colonizing space could be as deluded as human brains deciding they're all going to live apart from human bodies from now on. There's a huge jump between visiting a terrestrially-supplied space station and living truly independently of earth's ecosystem. 4/7
Yes if we want to have trillions of humans we'll have to find a way to colonize space, but if your greatest vision for humanity is simply there being trillions of us living on space stations or wherever, you haven't explored human potential much. We're capable of so much more.5/7
In the same way we benefit from dealing with our inner demons instead of running away, I believe humanity would experience a beautiful psychological transformation if we just committed to being here instead of running off onto some Amazon Space Dildo. 6/7
Enough with the celestial escapism. It's childish fantasy that won't work & is sucking up all our shared resources because a handful of manchildren control them disproportionately. We need to turn our attention inward and commit to healing Earth first. She deserves that much. 7/7

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