Before we destroy our economy with expensive and intermittent “green energy” in the attempt to disrupt inevitable, ongoing climate change, we should rationally evaluate actual global threats.
The one tragedy with 100 percent certainty of occurrence with devastating results is a collision with an asteroid or comet only a few miles in size. The inner solar system is often described as a billiard tablelike motion of countless bodies impacting one another. One need only look at our near moon to see the ravages from thousands of collisions — any one of which would set our world ablaze.
Although tracking of near-Earth objects has gone on for decades, and needs to continue, preventive measures are now needed to detect and deflect even skyscraper-sized space debris. The recent DART mission that collided with an orbiting asteroid allowed some basic mathematics and physics to be confirmed, but NASA only spent $325 million on this project. This work must be expanded exponentially to address the true severity of the threat.
We must stop this quixotic fantasy on “catastrophic” climate diversion and concentrate on actual issues that have proven in the past to be fatal.
