Space programme or Starving people

Well why can't it be? Isn't that type of discussion a more desperate and needed one?

 

Even if we go here, the point is that with technological advances in other departments than just 'helping people not to starve' new changes transpire. Many of the benefits given from the space program, the energy resources would change as we do and could still be used. That change isn't going to happen if science isn't supposed to explore new power methods etc and we just focus where you want everything to, which is just to benefit poor starving people. Most discoveries happen to make life easier and improve chances of survival. Many things we have go to other people of poorer countries. We don't want to just make it so they aren't starving but also improve their way of life.

Fossil fuels are an issue that needs addressed in -all- ways of life and it is being looked into with more seriousness. It does, however, take time and we can't change the mistakes of the past but have to move forward to get the work done. The space program is hardly responsible for us using fossil fuels because that's what we were all raised to be dependent on. We've done it for years and it has been our 'power source'. We've been stuck with it because no one wanted to explore other methods until recently and even then when we were all warned of its potential of not being around for several more years, oil corporations and those affiliated to them have kept us dependent on them. It doesn't mean the programs that must use oil are bad. It means that we have to make something new as an energy source. Most of those things that I listed have little to do with oil and if they do, they are equipment that are powered by electricity, which if electricity the way it is sent to people on the grid...well that would change in a heartbeat.

Right now we hope on inventors to come up with another power source that is reliable for our cars, jets, etc as well as what the grid for electricity will provide people with. You can now make a home with solar and wind power and have a support generator and have no need for using oil but for a dependable vehicle. The problem is that it costs so darn much to do. The deal though to get back on track is that if we just sat around worrying about others all the time, we'd never get anywhere and also some of the marvelous creations that happen out there would never be around. We'd still have starving people, whether you want to admit it or not. We'd also have nothing to make -ourselves- stable enough to CARE about the conditions of others. We give so much each year to tons of places because we -can-, PAW. You take our living conditions away that we have and no one gets anything because we will only worry about ourselves.

So, all in all, it comes down to this. Take science and other projects away that benefit our lives and help us have the time to understand our world and where we live, you take away the ability to help other people. Inventions that are from these programs get studied and people come around with new ways to better other things too, to include aiding those in poorer living conditions. We have a luxury those poorer countries do not and if we didn't, we'd be the same as them...so that won't help anyone at all. If that is gone, so is a large quantity of benevolence to aid others because we are going to be struggling ourselves too much and I'm sorry but in the really real world, you have to take care of #1 (you) before you go and take care of other people. Otherwise you put your own survival into question and that's just not how it will be able to work.