President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
We're on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.
When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.'
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
