I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.