Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Mars is the Next “New World," And We’ll Set Foot on it Soon. | Big Think" video.

  1. It is not. Existance of this species is horrible. Causing mass extinctions, wars and genocides
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  2. 1. There was no "new world" on Earth. People came to already inhabited place and killed locals, then settled. Not to say that any location settled on Earth so far had all the things we need: water, air, good climate etc. Antarctic is traveled to for almost 2 centuries, and except small scientific stations and whaling villages there was never any settlement there. No big cities, no self-sustaining settlement. 2. The biggest threat to human survival is our aggressive and destructive tendecies. We must neutralise that threat before we go to other planets, otherwise it can make situation even worse. 3. With said tendecies it is likely that even on (still) comfortable for human life Earth humanity will not survive for longer than several centuries. For how long can small colony on other non-terraformed unhospitable planet survive without any possibility of support missions from Earth? And, yeah, without terraforming large-scale settlement is impossible. 4. So far legacy of this species and civilisation is enormous destruction. Why would you want to ensure survival of something like that? Simply because "it is ours"? Sometimes it is good to remember that the fact that you belong to some group doesnt make that group automatically good or worthy
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