I jokingly mentioned about finding another planet, but I was very serious about why I said that. I absolutely agree with Rick.
We are not putting the funding into space exploration anymore. Though there are some efforts to travel to distant planets (like Mars) which pretty much go unnoticed these days. Why? Why do you think we send up rockets to go looking? There IS an ulterior motive for such space (and planet) exploration missions.
There may soon be more funding going into space stations... possibly to save some members of the human race to later re-populate the earth when it recovers from the destruction we humans are causing. And Rick is likely on the money when he says it may take several centuries for planet earth to recover.
I often think of the movie "Blade Runner" (made years ago) of what planet earth could look like with pollution and over-population in a world of concrete and abnormal weather conditions. I used to laugh at those sci-fi movies, but not anymore. What I thought was a wild imagination by a writer and movie producer, may in fact become more fact than fiction.
If any of you can view all the episodes in the Showtime series, "The Years of Living Dangerously", please check them out. You can watch the first entire episode on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
