Re: Colonizing in another planet
Given that the total destruction of planet earth is pretty much assured with in the not to distant future the chances of humans ever colonising another planet are remote.
Past generations can be forgiven for pollution, deforestation, over fishing, causing the extinction of so much life on this planet as they did not have the knowledge that we have had for quite some decades yet have not acted on in any meaningful way. This is why plastic now exists in every life form on the planet including humans and who knows what the long term effects will be.
We live in polluted city's which in the UK the causes 40,000 deaths every year due to respiratory problems.
Although three quarters of the planet is covered in water we are facing severe shortages of fresh water in the future and there will likely be major wars over fresh water supplies.
With ever increasing population food production will be a major problem with never more rain forest destruction to make way for farms which of course will effect the planets ability to absorb harmful gases which in turn will impact the climate and what we now call freak weather will become the norm.
I personally thinking it is too late especially when our own government decided to apply a sticking plaster to the plastic issued by announcing acted in single use plastic.
The greed of businesses continues to take precedence and when you have an idiot as president of the USA who denies that there is not a problem with our climate and increasing fossil fuel burning then I am afraid the human as a species is doomed andcwill certainly not exist long enough to invent the technology that we will need to leave our solar system and explore other galaxies.