I wonder if it's safe to say that we as a species have attained our peak and decline has set in. And the main culprit is the technologies we've created to ease our burdens. Instead of helping us they're cleaning out the refreshing and life sustaining print of nature in our planet.

We are trying to better our lives while trying to divorce Mother Nature to whom we're inseperably wed and that only results in disaster. We as a species need to slow down, step back and reconsider our actions, take a brutal inventory. And no, flying off to Mars won't solve it one bit, we'd just wear out Mars as we've the Earth, assuming that succeeds in the first place.

The things to focus on should be how to make healthy natural food available to people, how to improve the standard of living, how to tackle all the diseases, combat crime, grapple with population increase, natural disasters, achieve global peace, etc. Not the colonization of Mars.

We need to reorder our priorities to save ourselves from certain destruction, and this has to start from the leaders and the rest of the world will follow. If I were a world leader, I'd call a conference of nations to discuss these pressing issues and take action. Like the League of Nations assembled to discuss the threat of nuclear weapons to our existence. And each nation would be made to follow each rule discussed in the conference, like the UN act as a watchdog to prevent a possible, nuclear and apocalyptic third World War.