We spend tremendous sums in search of life in space and tremendous sums to destroy life on earth.
We want to have an alternative to earth, while ignoring the alternative called earth.
It is just another example of our prioritising what is without and deprioritising what is within.
If there is life anywhere else, why will space reveal it? Except of course it has a lurid taste for destruction.
There is a lot to learn about earth from space, for we cannot see ourselves fully without detachment.
However, the understanding such observation brings, should help us better balance energy within, not better destroy matter in order to just keep observing. The goal of observation is not observation, it is understanding.
What is the use of understanding, if we destroy what has been observed?
This is a root problem.
– Osasu Oviawe