Heavy industry "forces" people to flee to Mars in the future?

Some scientists believe that the solar system can support a billion times more industries than we do on earth.

Influenced by the change of the earth's environment and the decrease of resources, scientists began to consider the feasibility of moving heavy industry out of the earth, and the idea was not as far away as before.

Discovery magazine reported that collecting resources from other planets or asteroids, rather than using up the only resources left on the earth, may be the key to ensuring human survival.

It is not true that the earth's resources have been decreasing in the past two years. As early as 10 years ago, some enterprises realized this problem. They believe that human beings should go to other planets to collect resources, and strive to be pioneers in space resource collection.

One of the most representative enterprises is blue origin. Its founder Bezos said that humans should build large factories and solar panels in space, and gradually move the heavy industry on the earth to space.

According to Bezos, the earth only needs to keep residential use and some light industry, and solar energy in space can provide a steady stream of energy for large factories. He said, "I assure you, the earth is the best planet. We need to protect it, and the way we do this is to fly into space. "

Bezos's idea about which planet humans should "fly" to is Mars, and he absolutely believes that humans can settle on Mars in the future.

It is worth noting that NASA recently chose to invest millions of dollars in the technical concept of planetary exploration to help humans explore crates on the moon and mine asteroids.

In addition to material resources, solar power stations in space have also attracted the attention of scientists, which can transmit almost unlimited energy back to the earth. At present, Chinese scientists are conducting this research.

Not all scientists are positive about the idea of moving heavy industry out of the earth.

Some scientists think that it is not a "wise move" to exploit resources on other planets from the perspective of harmony between human beings and the solar system. They signed a proposal calling for protecting more than 85% of the solar system from human development.

These views hold that once we put the idea of exploring other planets into practice, one day we will "develop" the entire solar system, and then mankind will face a greater survival crisis.

On the other hand, it is not easy to realize the "migration" of heavy industry.

Recently, JAXA successfully landed its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft on an asteroid named "Dragon Palace" and launched a metal bomb on its surface, hoping to collect samples of resources on the planet.

According to the plan, Hayabusa 2 will bring back samples when it returns to Earth at the end of 2020.

However, these efforts are far from supporting the future development of mankind with asteroid mining. It is even difficult for us to determine whether these resources belong to a certain country or all mankind after being exploited, which is very likely to bring about political sensitive issues.

Man has only taken a small step in moving heavy industry away from the earth.

Finally, the author believes that with the climate change and the rapid consumption of resources, it is a matter of time before heavy industry or human beings "escape" from the earth.

Only before that, we need to make changes in advance, not only to establish the consciousness of "harmony with the environment", but also to implement it.

If we continue to exploit and destroy the environment as before, even if we go to other planets, we will eventually become "extinct".