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11 Jul, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Space colonization will never happen. It's a delusion promoted by billionaires who have a vested interest in marketing the idea that the ecologically unsustainable nature of status quo capitalism can be resolved by turning humanity into a spacefaring species. They are lying.
Further reading on the fact that space colonization will never happen:
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Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op

"If space colonization isn't possible, then the people who are destroying our environment for money are just deranged lunatics who must be stopped at all cost.
But they are. And we must."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/space-coloni…
No we have not. We've never come anywhere remotely close. What we have done is glorified scuba expeditions where astronauts entirely supplied by earth's ecosystem and backed by thousands of laborers on the ground have briefly visited space.
Humans cannot live separately from earth's ecosystem, because humans are earth's ecosystem. We're not separate from it.
This is why the most forceful defenders of Elon Musk are also rabid capitalism proponents: they know that if billionaires can't save us from the consequences of ecocidal capitalism using technological innovations, then their entire worldview is invalid. But they can't and it is.
Didn't realize the author of the above Twitter thread recently wrote a proper article about it:
salon.com/2021/07/07/no-…
That's a false dichotomy and a toxic narrative. The choice isn't between extinction or the delusion of space colonization, it's between extinction and evolving into a conscious species. Billionaires rule out the latter because they're the least conscious.
We've got an infinitely better chance of using technology here on earth to prevent extinction via astroids or volcanoes than we do of using technology to prevent extinction by colonizing space.

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