Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.
We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.
Solving problems is fine, but it has gotten to the point of being a global obsession. We somehow have it in our heads that if we solve all of the problems, we can sit back and enjoy the easy life. But in reality, we become lazy and complacent. And that's when we get flooded with even bigger problems.
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.'
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.