• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It’s not helping. We aren’t going to get a “deus ex machina” moment on righting damage done to the environment. Yes focus on the bigger goals and pollution sources, but this is a trend in the wrong way to enlarge Elon’s money pile.

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      2 months ago

      You’re missing the forest for the trees and way over estimating how much pollution rocket launches put out.

      We have to leave the planet, which means we need to practice so to speak, and those rockets are the only way we are going to get out there right now. The pollution produced by them is well worth it.

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        We need to leave the planet? For where?

        For a planet that’s completely incapable of sustaining life?

        Do you realize that it’ll take many, many orders of magnitude more resources, time, and effort to make literally any other celestial body within several years of space flight of us capable of sustaining life than it will be to fix the habitable planet we have right here?

        We’re not getting off this rock without stabilizing it enough to sustain us long-term first. And by then, we won’t need to leave. Either way, though, evacuating isn’t a viable solution.

        And if you don’t believe me, go talk to some biologists.