He should be spending his money on cleaning up the trash and pollution his company produces directly or indirectly and then helping shift to greener ways of life.
At this point in time it seems highly unlikely that we can ditch Earth for somewhere else.
We must take responsibility now and execute radical change.
Maybe it's related to the cult of optimism that surrounds these kinds of "startup" ideas, but what is the actual plan for living a nice life outside of Earth? At least on a timeline that's helpful for Jeff Bezos and his peers.
Supporting life in space or our on our planetary neighbors will always be harder then trying to sustain life on a Earth, even one that's less hospitable and riven with climate instigated strife. Unless their plan is to hide in orbit while the society and environment they were born into crumble.
What happened oldest pastime of the fortunate: being a humanitarian and philanthropist?
This man can have anything he wants, yet still he can only wants to escape his troubles and anxieties, and lacks the courage to help current and future generations that will inherit the mess he's choosing to ignore.
We'll never solve our problems if our society's leaders don't have the will to face them.
In fairness, Bezos is only doing what billionaires are expected to do: do billionaire things like send rockets into space and do billionaire things like anticipate future utopias. He wouldn't be a billionaire if he wasn't into aeronautics and space flight. We all know about the old stereotype of Dr Evil and his moonbases. It was portrayed very nicely in the Austin Powers movies.
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 20.3 ms ] threadAt this point in time it seems highly unlikely that we can ditch Earth for somewhere else. We must take responsibility now and execute radical change.
It starts with men like Bezos.
Supporting life in space or our on our planetary neighbors will always be harder then trying to sustain life on a Earth, even one that's less hospitable and riven with climate instigated strife. Unless their plan is to hide in orbit while the society and environment they were born into crumble.
What happened oldest pastime of the fortunate: being a humanitarian and philanthropist?
This man can have anything he wants, yet still he can only wants to escape his troubles and anxieties, and lacks the courage to help current and future generations that will inherit the mess he's choosing to ignore.
We'll never solve our problems if our society's leaders don't have the will to face them.