He'll be wanting to grow tomatoes on the moon next! You may possibly get some scrubby dusty fields out of the plan but I prefer the one in your picture. Learning to manage waste on this planet is the answer, including urban food waste and too many cars. JV
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Oh, I've got to admit, I'm a huge advocate of space development- in no small part because a single decent sized metallic asteroid could fuel the Earth's demand for metal for several years, obviating the need for destructive and toxic mining of the Earth's crust. Other reasons as well.
But yeah, we need to seriously learn to manage our waste and our resource overconsumption on this planet as well.
If we sensibly look after what we have already we won't need other planets. No problem with space travel - I saw the first moon landing! JV
For me it's more a combination of risk mitigation (not keeping our eggs all in one basket) and a need to explore.
Very sensible. Stick to it!
Growing crops in space does sound like a fascinating proposition, actually. ^_^
I have to admit though that, as much as I really like the idea of terraforming other planets (once confirmed that there are no species being killed off as a result), I also am highly sceptical of humanity's maturity and readiness to do so. Lets try and get it right here first.
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Absolutely!