In today’s day and age, space exploration has become a growing subject of interest as more and more people are beginning to grow curious about space and its contents. Some even desire to build colonies in space and have humans begin living on other plants. Space colonization should be supported because in the not so far future, it may be necessary to preserve the human race in case of an event making Earth uninhabitable.
As many likely know, the Earth is upon trying times. Many countries and their leaders are experiencing tension and disagreements, and most of them have nuclear weapons on the tips of their fingers. Climate change is showing to be a serious issue, and may soon be irreversible. In the event of nuclear war or a climate emergency, the Earth may prove uninhabitable and humans would go extinct. If we were to build colonies in outer space, humans would have another shot at survival and another plant to hopefully not destroy.
Steven Hawking agrees with this viewpoint. He predicted that humans would go extinct in the next thousand years and if we do not colonize other planets in the next 200 years, we risk long term extinction. Hawking was a respected and well known cosmetologist, meaning his predictions have a good shot at becoming reality.
This might not be as far a reach as we might think. In 2005, the then NASA administrator Michael Griffin “identified space colonization as the ultimate goal of current spaceflight programs.” He discussed how single-planet species will not be able to survive in the long run, and if humans want to survive for many more years, we must colonize other planets.
There was a theoretical study of the long term trajectory of human civilization in 2019, and there was a four step sequence developed in which the astronomical trajectory of mankind is heading. We will first grow dependant colonies, then they will grow independent, then they can begin exploring space, then they will begin to colonize. This process, although difficult, could be the key to human preservation.
Space colonization could be necessary for the preservation of the human species. The human race faces threats that may only be solvable by exploring in space and colonizing new planets. It is important that we, as a race, begin developing colonization ideas and tactics and start programs. If we fail to do this soon, humans are looking at extinction.
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