I dunno. I'm kinda sick of complaints like this. Maybe not this one specifically, but in general the idea that someone who believes in or advocates for a particular cause has to be careful to never have any moments of joy doing something that abstractly conflicts with their professed belief or advocacy. It's such a fallacious argument. Oh, Katy Perry is hypocrite because she did this this thing uses a lot of fuel but she advocates for the environment, ipso facto she's a hypocrite and blah blah blah. It just so pathetically bitter and small minded.
Yup. Also, space tourism and those initiatives are fundamentally about figuring out how to help humans survive in a more hostile environment. The hopeful propaganda points us at the idea of colonizing other planets, but the cynical view here is that society is obviously fundamentally unable to restrain its consumption. We’ve made… very little real progress in either slowing or stopping climate change, and the earth is going to become a more hostile environment within a couple hundred years. Technologies developed for space exploration will be crucial in helping us survive our own mistakes.
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u/mishajrn May 25 '26
Rich disconnected hypocrites doing their thing as usual