Consider this: for decades humanity has possessed the capability to expand into our solar system—but we have not.” He let his words sink in, looking from face to face. “It’s not because explorers like you weren’t willing to shoulder the risk. Instead it was a blindness among our leaders that prevented them from seeing the true risk. And yet on Earth, we spend a trillion dollars on war without blinking an eye. With each passing year, the chance of a global catastrophe mounts—the climate, an epidemic, a financial crash, or a war that shrouds Earth in space debris and prevents us from reaching
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