JANU: There are challenges for humanity in its quest to find another habitable planet for the preservation of humanity of the Earth, seeing a habitable world as an alternative to the pressure of better management of the one they have. The distances involved to other worlds, and present technology, protects other worlds from mismanagement.
Is another world, our brother, the solution to the pressures humanity has created for itself? A wiser path might be better management of the Earth and society, while searching other worlds. And if these worlds are populated, what then? Witness human history, when one nation wants to expand into lands already populated. There is unlimited population growth. What’s your social model? Does consumption of resources and pollution of nature show wisdom? Humanity’s perception of isolation in the universe does not take into account that others have the capacity to review human history and behavior, even to the present.
What we suggest here is balance and responsibility and a growing maturity and honest appraisal of policies and decisions. Moving to larger worlds and other civilizations carries responsibilities yet to be appreciated. These quests for expansion into the larger life go hand in hand with a demonstration of maturity not often spoken of when looking for and speaking on the search for inhabitable worlds. Considerations of the reality of a Family of Life larger than the Earth, larger than humanity, is called for. Now is the time. Namaste.
Jan. 28, 2016 Copyright © 2016 by Joshua Ross