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== For our planet == | |||
We have now arrived at our blue planet, the habitat of our species. Contrary to the prevailing opinion, namely the model of so-called overpopulation, our planet could accommodate a multitude of people. However, women worldwide are having fewer and fewer children. Since 1990, the birth rate has dropped from an average of 3.2 children per woman to 2.3 children today. In all Western countries, the birth rate is below 2 and thus the population is shrinking there. Only in the countries of Central and East Africa are the birth rates above 2. Prosperity goes hand in hand with the number of people who contribute to this planet. Therefore, we should aim for higher birth rates again, especially in the western world. | |||
As soon as we begin to think on a planetary level and understand us as one species, we can focus our attention on real threats that have so far received no attention. | |||
As already noted elsewhere, vast amounts of financial resources are spent on defending nation states. It's like two people wanting to have a conversation with their eyes closed, but they can't hear each other because they're wearing earplugs and they also can't see. This is not productive. This makes military defense of nations counterproductive. Let's assume that aliens land on our planet tomorrow. The threat scenario has changed completely. But only an efficient international organization could respond to such a threat. | |||
We understand that the threat of aliens goes beyond the horizon of many readers. But they should now be told that in recent years there has been a new dimension of UFO sightings and secondly - not least due to the Fermi Paradox - such an event can occur at any time. | |||
We are one humanity and should focus on the real threats instead of throwing sand at others over imaginary lines. | |||
We will manage this too! | |||
== For our space == | |||
The most important point, which is not receiving attention in the current discourse, is not our environment, our society or our planet, but our space. | |||
In a few hundred million years, the sun will have grown so strong that life on Earth will no longer be possible. This period seems so large to many people that they find it plausible to not pay further attention to this problem. | |||
66 million years ago, a comet struck the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, leaving behind a 150-kilometer-wide crater. This comet is most likely responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. A similar comet could strike the earth again at any time and also wipe out our species. | |||
To date, we have no publicly known plans for the event of aliens contacting or visiting our planet! | |||
Apart from the sparse and privately funded SETI@home project, there are no worldwide efforts to search for signals to analyze them. | |||
Finally, the most serious point: We were last on the moon over 50 years ago. The moon could serve as a final repository for nuclear waste, a place to store solar energy and then beam it back to earth, or a location for nuclear reactors. A moon base would promote research and could offer advantages due to low gravity to produce goods and services there. | |||
Space is not only important for our species due to its direct use. We have repeatedly pushed boundaries in our history, from the African steppe to the ocean. What started with the moon landing is a new boundary that we can push and that brings us together and advances us as a whole. | |||
Despite all these obvious points, space only plays a role in Hollywood movies and recently, sporadically, with a small handful of entrepreneurs. | |||
Our idea is to declare the colonization of outer space as a global and political main goal. | |||
We will manage this! | |||
== Appeal == | |||
Question. Verify. Understand. Improve. With these ideas, we do not want to convince you. We want to use these ideas to show how our vision takes shape in various areas of life and what we want to achieve. | |||