Time is relative but we need the space now

  Millions of dollars are earmarked to develop more advanced radio telescopes to explore life beyond earth. We have the undoubted technology for space exploration, but let’s get our own housekeeping in order here first by looking after the life that already exists on this planet, and ensuring that animal species have a future in the wild. Perhaps, we should be looking up, out and beyond. Perhaps, instead of expanding our urban environment and encroaching on wilderness we should be building more high rises so that wildlife has a place underneath in which to live free of human habitation. We need to be taking a big leap forward instead of little piecemeal steps that are taking us nowhere fast in preserving our natural habitat in a rapidly changing environment. Perhaps, colonization of other planets is the answer to freeing up space here on earth so that our natural habitat is sustainable, and preserved indefinitely. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking alludes that it’s all good in theory but we need the space now, and time is running out fast.