"So here's the catch. If you have the power of geoengineering to turn Mars into Earth, then you have the power of geoengineering to turn Earth back into Earth."
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and writer

Video clip of showing Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and writer speaking, transcript: Climate change will not make earth uninhabitable. Climate change will make earth a living hell. In fact, I live in New York city where in our harbor we have the statue of liberty and she is holding the declaration of independence in her left arm and her right arm has the torch. The melting ice on land? The ocean level will rise to reach her left elbow. So that takes out all of New York city and basically every other coastal that we've spent tousands of years building since the dawn of civilization. So life will be very very different. So the way I look at it there is people who want to colonize other planets, give us an escape route. We trashed earth, let's move elsewhere and hope we don't trash that. Well, there aren't many places to move. You'll vaporize on Venus, so you're not going to Venus. Mars rotates once every 24 hours. That's kind of interesting. It's tipped on its as earth is, which means it has seasons, it has polar ice caps the way we stil do at this moment, and there is evidence of running water on its surface. So there's a chance we could terraform Mars. My favourite word over the past few decades. You turn something that is not Earth to something that's like Earth. Then you just move there. So here's the catch. If you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Mars into Earth, then you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Earth back into Earth.
Video clip of showing Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and writer speaking, transcript: Climate change will not make earth uninhabitable. Climate change will make earth a living hell. In fact, I live in New York city where in our harbor we have the statue of liberty and she is holding the declaration of independence in her left arm and her right arm has the torch. The melting ice on land? The ocean level will rise to reach her left elbow. So that takes out all of New York city and basically every other coastal that we've spent tousands of years building since the dawn of civilization. So life will be very very different. So the way I look at it there is people who want to colonize other planets, give us an escape route. We trashed earth, let's move elsewhere and hope we don't trash that. Well, there aren't many places to move. You'll vaporize on Venus, so you're not going to Venus. Mars rotates once every 24 hours. That's kind of interesting. It's tipped on its as earth is, which means it has seasons, it has polar ice caps the way we stil do at this moment, and there is evidence of running water on its surface. So there's a chance we could terraform Mars. My favourite word over the past few decades. You turn something that is not Earth to something that's like Earth. Then you just move there. So here's the catch. If you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Mars into Earth, then you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Earth back into Earth.
@rolle

I will say this much we already know how to turn earth into earth. It’s called bio regionalism. This is the process of re-localizing our communities so that we can live a very, very comfortable life off of the land our communities occupy..

That means all the food all the housing material all the housing and materials for clothing and materials for tools. All are drawn from locally with a minimum of external resources.

By definition, this is life within planetary boundaries

@rolle
It's even by far easier to repair earth than prepare Mars ...
... and to prepare Mars, you'll increase damage done to Earth already. Just think about the enormous amount if energy you need to develop, test and transport the equipment and 'biological seeds' to Mars.

So, repair Earth responsibly, then take your knowledge to Mars.

@rolle
Yeah, unfortunately that's a #fallacy and deGrasse Tyson knows better, but chooses hypotheticals like "if you have the power". It's like trying to land on Mars but only managing to skid on the outer atmosphere and never entering it.

The #climateCrisis is inherent to the system that's created it. Expecting that the same system that owes its existence to exploitation of resources and people will now act against its own interests and… save the planet, is just very bad #fiction.

#hype

@rolle
I do too, but only as food for the imagination.

Fiction is now the old mode of a world that lived in nirvana: a never ending growth. In the new world, which deGrasse himself describes in the video, such fiction will soon become the sad relic of a relentless propaganda that wanted the rotten system to somehow "correct" itself, as if history that showed that it can't had never happened.

Sorry to be so negative, but we must be realistic, too.

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