Mars As A Backup Planet Thesis

Argumentative Essay

By: Abby Hoebeke

Have you ever wondered what if we can’t make another planet habitable? “If humans have the technology, knowledge, and ability to transform an uninhabitable planet, moon, or another place in space into an appealing home for humans, then surely we have the technology, knowledge, and ability to fix the problems we’ve created on Earth,” says Britannica. Money that is being spent on a dream of living in space is making Earth suffer. The United States of America shouldn’t spend money on space, we should use the resources on Earth, and we don’t know if any other planet is habitable.

One reason is that money in space should be spent on preserving Earth. From, Mars as a Backup Planet, Lucianne Walkoowicz says, “at the same time as we’re discovering this treasure trove of potentially habitable worlds, our own planet is sagging under the weight of humanity.” It’s important to notice that the author thinks that our Earth is dying and by the

Linda Billings in Space Colonization talks about how every generation of people on Earth has evolved to Earth-like conditions and how we struggle to adapt to the changing conditions on Earth. This expresses the idea that colonizing a different body in space would become even more difficult because it could simply be too hard on our bodies. Mars as a Backup Planet states “the implication and belief by some that Mars will be there to save us from the self-inflicted destruction of the only truly habitable planet we know of, the Earth.” This quotation tells us that we have no evidence that any planet, moon, or other body in space is habitable, so all the money, manpower, and energy being spent on space exploration could be for nothing, if space really is infinite we would never know if a place in space was habitable. To summarize, we don’t know if any place in space is habitable so we shouldn’t explore