While they sell us impossible dreams on Mars 🌌, Earth suffers from their greed. 🌍💸 Wake up! #ThereIsNoPlanetB #Misinformation #SaveTheEarth #UrgentChange

The narrative of self-proclaimed billionaire saviors of humanity, promoting the idea of becoming an interplanetary species, is rooted in fantasy and disconnected from scientific reality. The notion that we could soon inhabit planets like Mars or other celestial bodies is not only extremely unlikely but presents insurmountable challenges in the short and medium term. Biologically and technologically, the obstacles to sustaining human life permanently outside Earth are immense, and the promoters of this idea are well aware of it.

One of the most significant impediments to space colonization is the very nature of the human body, which has evolved over millions of years to adapt specifically to Earth’s conditions. Gravity, atmosphere, the day-night cycle, and other factors have profoundly shaped our biology. Trying to live in an entirely different environment, such as Mars, would be devastating for the human body. For instance, Mars has an extremely thin atmosphere, composed mostly of carbon dioxide, and lacks almost any protection from solar and cosmic radiation. Prolonged exposure to these conditions could cause irreversible damage to human tissues, increasing the risk of cancer, heart disease, and other health disorders.

Moreover, the gravity on Mars is only 38% of Earth’s gravity. Over time, this would negatively affect bone density and muscle mass, endangering the health of anyone attempting to settle there. The human body, as it is now, cannot quickly adapt to such conditions. In fact, for the human body to evolve to withstand dangerous levels of radiation, such as those on Mars, it would take thousands of years. And that’s just one part of the problem. Other critical factors, like the lack of oxygen, extreme temperatures, and the absence of liquid water on the surface, make life on Mars, or any other nearby planet, unviable without the constant support of advanced technology and costly resources imported from Earth.

This leads to another crucial point: the unavoidable dependency on Earth’s resources. To maintain permanent colonies outside the planet, a continuous supply network of materials and food from Earth would be necessary, something logistically unsustainable. Instead of promoting a self-sufficient ecosystem on another planet, space colonies would simply be fragile extensions dependent on our own world. No matter how much these billionaires try to sell the idea of interplanetary self-sufficiency, the reality is that such colonies, if achieved, would have extremely limited viability without a steady flow of resources from the planet they claim we should abandon.

On the other hand, the psychological and social problems that would arise in such hostile and isolated environments cannot be ignored. Space is an inhospitable and lonely environment, and the tensions we’ve already seen during short missions to the International Space Station would multiply in longer, permanent missions. The mental health of the settlers would be constantly at risk, not to mention the issues related to reproduction and the upbringing of new generations in such adverse conditions.

These biological, technological, and psychological challenges reveal that space colonization is not only unfeasible in the short term but could be downright impossible within the timeframes these billionaires suggest. Meanwhile, these individuals continue to invest enormous fortunes in space technologies that, instead of offering real solutions to Earth’s problems, accelerate the planet’s destruction through pollution from massive fuel consumption for launches and the production of colossal infrastructures.

The real issue isn’t the lack of a second habitable planet but the blindness to the solutions we could implement to save the only home we have: Earth. The resources poured into these space projects could have been directed towards real, concrete projects for decontamination technologies, renewable energy, environmental conservation, and improving the quality of life on our planet. This would do much more for the survival of humanity than any attempt to colonize Mars or another celestial body.

Ultimately, the narrative of space billionaires, like that of the far right, is a fabricated fable designed to maintain control, divert attention, and perpetuate a system that benefits a few while the planet and most of humanity pay the price. We are being distracted by impossible dreams while the Earth, our only true home, is being depleted and degraded before our very eyes. Instead of seeking refuge in the stars, we should be focusing all our efforts on restoring and preserving the life-sustaining balance of our planet. Because, contrary to what they try to sell us, there is no “Planet B.”