If We Don’t Save Ourselves, Who Will Save Us?
Yes, we understand, humans know how to destroy each other all too well.
Who will save us if we don’t save ourselves? We know just how devastating the worlds arsenal of biological and nuclear weapons can be, do we need to keep testing them? Surely the money and effort could be much better spent elsewhere on behalf of humanity? I completely understand the logic that one country needs to balance powers by keeping up, and showing it off, but the fatal flaw in that logic is that if we create it a scenario in which we use it is inevitable.
Would the money have been better spent solving THIS problem instead?
When the human race dies out, is our place in history going to read as follows? Humans – too busy building weapons to find time to save themselves as a race. I sure hope not. This post is a little more “heavy” than the average post you’ll find on Popular Wealth but every once in a while everyone needs to take a good long look around them. With my idol, Richard Garriott, preparing to venture into space later this year I’ve had space on the brain recently.
The list of problems humanity must solve is astounding, the more we learn, the more we know just how astounding it is. Look at a map, it’s full of “divisions” and lines – is humanity really still that divided? Listen to our leaders, they bash each other relentlessly, then make up with promises of a glorious future, only to find something else to squabble about – is that the best we can do as a collective? I read an article this week on the front page of Yahoo! (and many other news outlets) that said giving Paris Hilton a free 15,000 watch is “good business” – is repairing 100 third world childrens cleft lips not “better business”?
Our childrens futures depend on an answer.
Ok, heavy questions with unlimited possible perspectives. One thing I can say with certainty – when a MAJOR problem occurs, we set aside differences. Perhaps I have too much “space” on the brain but it seems to me that earth can’t keep up with us eternaly, nor will it exist eternaly, so my wish for 2008, for my childrens children, is that urgency is placed on space exploration and on related subjects like terra-forming. This is the universe we live in, we’re fully sentient beings, it’s time we get our act together as a humanity is it not?
If we don’t, who will save us?
[images courtesy Uri Kalish]