Humanity’s Great (and Shameful) Escape
- slingshotmagazine
- Mar 11, 2019
- 2 min read
by Susanna Joseph
Repercussions can be scary. It can be hard to admit wrongdoing, especially in the mindset of a collective, where personal responsibility can easily be overshadowed by the colossal faults of the ambiguous ‘other’. And when wealth is factored in, the strain gets even worse.
If you can pay someone to attune even the most rigid of minds to the frequency of clemency, why would you waste time singing songs of remorse?
In the context of our current environmental crisis, there is only one solution fitting for the 1%, those who likely had the heaviest hand to play in the downfall of a livable climate here on once-friendly Earth, and it is just a few million miles away.
Voluntary extradition to Mars is a finale so sweet it puts the showstoppers of the Bake Off Final to shame, so perfectly on-the-nose it could have been a header from Harry Maguire. The time, the resources, the countless, inconceivable amount of dollars that will continue to be funnelled into this project probably could have saved the world a few times over. But that’s never how it goes. The billionaires funding this criminal misdistribution are so desperate to be the saviours of humanity, despite inadvertently (at best) fueling its destruction.
The projects are not easy. Elon Musk himself will tell you that, solemn with the thought of the people he is willing to sacrifice. Financially as well, they are seemingly not as viable as once thought.
Mars One is flatlining as its backers choke on the oxygen-free reality of space travel. But SpaceX and NASA are ploughing away on the mission to get humans to Mars before civilisation must face the inevitable consequences of our mistreatment of the Earth. And those responsible will be able to extend their guilt-free fantasies way beyond the clouds.
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