Ambrose puts his head in his hands. When he looks back at me, there is steel in his expression. “To be honest, I get where Devon Mujaba is coming from. Now that our countries are fully at war, which could finally be the end stage of human civilization that the pundits have so long predicted, now that we’ve seen the extinction of virtually all vertebrate sea life and the misery of the animals that remain on land . . . compared to that, what does the suffering of a small colony on an exoplanet matter, so far in the future and so far away? Comparatively nothing. Not compared to the threat we
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