I wonder if it really will be this bad when we have interplanetary friends

Didn’t we just land on Mars?

A friend asked me why we invest so much time and effort into going to other planets. I suggested that he look at the dismal mess we have turned THIS planet into and tell me how HE plans to fix it.

My friend, a Kung Fu master (no – really – he’s a legit Shaolin master!) asked how going to another planet will fix this one. “It won’t” I said, “but it will buy us more time and give us more lands to pollute.”

He didn’t laugh.

I wasn’t joking.