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Should We Colonize Other Planets? (Paperback)
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Should We Colonize Other Planets? (Paperback)
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As humans continue to degrade and destroy our planet's resources,
leading to predictions of total ecological collapse, some (such as
the entrepreneur Elon Musk) now suggest that a human colony
elsewhere may be our species' best hope for survival. Adam Morton
examines extra-terrestrial colonization plans with a critical eye.
He makes a strong case for colonization - just not by human beings.
Humans live relatively short lives and, to survive, require large
amounts of food and water, very specific climatic conditions and an
oxygen-rich atmosphere. We can create colonists that have none of
these shortcomings. Reflecting compassionately on the nature of
existence, Morton argues that we should treat the end of the human
race in the same way that we treat our own deaths: as something sad
but ultimately inevitable. The earth will perish one day, and, in
the end, we should be concerned more with securing the future of
intelligent beings than with the preservation of our species, which
represents but a nanosecond in the history of our solar system.
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