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Our society has the ability for humankind to explore and eventually inhabit other parts of our solar system. This adventure presents its own set of pros and cons.

Pros/Cons

    1. Earth could be diminished due to pollution, and we would have nowhere else to go: Earth has a big problem with pollution. It’s one of the deadliest things on this planet. If the Earth becomes full of pollution, we wouldn’t have anywhere else to go and be trapped on Earth to suffer from the pollution.

 

 

   2. Overpopulation: If we didn’t explore space, we probably couldn’t inhabit new planets, which means we would only have Earth, and with growing population, Earth could find new problems, like crowded and hunger issues.

 

 

   3. We could never advance in technology:

       Sure, we are advancing technologically at the moment, but if we don’t explore space, our aerospace technology wouldn’t improve because we would never travel anywhere beyond our atmosphere.

 

 

  4. If something happened to Earth, we wouldn’t have anywhere to go:

      Along the lines of #2, if Earth fell into trouble, say war or too many refugees, we wouldn’t have                   anywhere to go and be stuck on a planet of corruptness.

Pros

Cons

  1. We will have more elbow room: On Earth, there are about 7 billion people living on Earth as of now, and with the growing population, who knows what the count will be in ten years. If we explore and inhabit local planets, we can have much more room for the population to grow.                      

  2. Other planets can have more resources: Because of the population, a lot of Earth’s resources have been used, such as fossil fuel. Sure, we may still have quite a bit, but later on, in the future, we could run out. Some other planets might have a vast supply of other resources that could be gone in the future. 
     

  3. We can have fresh air:  Inhabiting a new planet means that the air (once there is oxygen there) will be fresh. We could restart and have the air be fresh again and not full of pollution.
     

  4. Global Warming: On Earth, pollution is one of the biggest things worldwide. Pollution also creates Greenhouse gasses, which make Global Warming. This can lead to many world problems and chaos. If we move to another planet, there will be fewer people on Earth, so there would be fewer people to create population.

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