Burning Eden with No Planet B

How come when change is absolutely needed to happen, our society always seems to end up disagreeing and bickering (to put it politely) about what should be done. Yet even with all this there is a substantial  amount of people who, just, would rather stand idly by and continue the path that is not survivable. It is almost like ignorance has become a badge of honour in our present day and common sense is seen as a fallacy. Words and trust have pretty well become hollow and meaningless....
Now where does one go from here, knowing that speaking up will put them into a situation where they would get shut down. Where does one go where standing up means that you are on the wrong side, and apathy and obedience towards the inverted totalitarianism capitalist consumer culture controlled by corporate giants is blasted through main stream media has the norm.

Since the 70's we have found out that we are having an impact on this world that (even before then in the 1800's we already knew the effects of heavy industry), if nothing is done, will make it hard to live on our planet for the next generations. But what have we done to fix this? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Well, we have done a lot of things but none of them major enough to route the problem at hand. Meanwhile our space agencies around the world have slowed down to a snails pace. We are searching and have found more than several worldly bodies but all of them are light years away. Thanks to Moore's law we are more than capable now more than ever able to venture out into our solar system and stand colonizing other planets and therefore reducing the stress on our and giving it a chance to slowly recover (over several million years). So what are we waiting for? Well firstly the world financial situation is in the dumps and heads of the banks are richer than Midas (who in greek mythology turn everything into gold what he touched).

We could rise up in defiance, with civil disobedience but I doubt that will help create the change we need in the time we need it. Of course shutting down our country because we detest our elected government only means those changes are going to take longer to happen. Enough with the "we need to do this...." instead can we just GET THE BALL ROLLING. Money along with Propaganda has got us into this situation which has turned citizens who use to be able to think for themselves now let the corporate giants make all their decisions. Change must start tomorrow if possible (yes it is overly ambitious) but that is the only way we are going to get somewhere.

On top of all that we need to ramp up our space program A-SAP! Sure we have Mars One but that is going to take till 2023 and that is just the first manned mission sent there. We are a million way from sunrise on the darkest night before the dawn, running out of options and time.  Yet we still continue with what are doing without a care or whim in the world, like nothing is going to kill us. WAKE UP PEOPLE! How many times must we yell it and we are NOT crying wolf!

Inorder to make it to the next century we need to become a space-faring civilization, except in our case it has to happen over night. We have the means, we have the money (in all wrong places sadly) and we have the materials and skills to make such a ship. There are several options at hand which we could follow or of course all them too would be viable.

• Our space agencies could receive more funding to create such a ship
• Private billionaires could design and create it (like Richard Branson) [but one is NOT enough)
• Crowd Funded projects are the world could each create their own ship

Each of these has their own problems, and their own pros but we would be better off doing something instead of sitting on our asses doing nothing.