Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Going to space won't save us from the climate emergency. The unimaginably vast trove ...
Going to space won't save us from the climate emergency. The unimaginably vast trove of material and the energy and advanced technology needed to lift it off Earth and get it to Mars is orders of magnitude more material and energy than we would need to resolve the actual climate emergency here.
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