Many planets have already been found and deemed unsuitable for human life. However, with the new technologies viable today, the PLATO project has been approved which will be able to go further out into the universe in order to find better planets that can sustain human life or that already have life on them.
Whilst this is an astonishing break through in technologies, it provides an idea that our only viable option as a species is to keep destroying our planet until a new one has been found, to which we can migrate.
Is this a direct result of climate change? Perhaps not, science is always advancing and the new discoveries are incredibly advanced and should be treated and respected as such, but does this pose a threat to life one Earth continuing down the road of extinction? Yes, yes it does.
With this new research being broadcasted on the Government Web page, it suggests that the situation at hand i.e., climate change is too great to be solved, fixed or undone. But this is not the case.
Rather than funding twenty-five millions pounds into a potential new location for human life, why can’t we fund that money into schemes to reverse or offset climate change?
Rather than funding 25 millions pounds into a potential new location for human life, why can't we fund that money into schemes to reverse or offset climate change?
Not only is the Government doing a monetary disservice, but it could also cause mass hysteria that perhaps human life doesn’t have long left on Earth and that a solution needs to be found quickly. Which is true, and something climate activists have been saying for years. Nevertheless, moving to another planet and potentially ruining all of its resources shouldn’t be a viable option. Let alone the only option.
Whilst this technology is a breakthrough, the renewable energy options have been around for years and should have been put in place a long time ago so that we didn’t have to look for another planet to move too.
Additionally this doesn’t seem like a productive use of scientists time – when we’re currently in the sixth mass Extinction period. Instead, what would seem better, is how can we utilise all the resources we have now – without extracting more – and provide safer and better communities free of carbon and emissions of greenhouse gases.
To summarise then, whilst the new technologies are impressive and successful, perhaps a more productive way to utilise scientists time would be to find and fund solutions rather than exit plans.