Future Shock?

This city of the future is by Jonathan Stephens.

People have seen more change in the last hundred years than in the last thousand. Pessimists promote the idea that human beings are psychologically fragile and will murder each other on long space voyages.

Well, than don't go. And when the government whines about not wanting to fund space programs anymore, to put the increasingly non-existant money in programs to help people, "here on Earth", remember that over 99% of the federal budget is already doing that.

So a cost-benefit analysis must be done: by using the money for space on Earth, space gets no funding. Some people may be helped on Earth, but if over 99% of the budget is trying to do that without success, will the extra half-a-percent make that much difference? And in the balance is the patrimony and possibly even the future of humankind.

Remind your officials about that in the epilogue of this presentation.