Yo what’s up dudes? So I caught this killer show by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at Lollapalooza in Brazil. Those dudes were on fire, man! The sound was just insane – the guitars were ripping, the vocals were mixed perfectly. Seriously, it was the best I’ve ever heard them sound, even better than their YouTube videos. I’d never really listened to them before, but I just dug the band name so I checked them out. Totally blew my mind, bro! Instant fan.
But let me rap about this “No Planet B” thing they were talking about. See, that’s some real shit right there. We only got one Earth, one home planet. And we’re trashing it hard, you know? We gotta wake up and take some action to save this place for our kids and their kids.
If I was king of the world, here’s what we’d do. We’d use all our knowledge, all our tech, everything we got and pour it into two missions: Fix up the mess we made on Earth, and get our asses to Mars pronto. Once we get that red planet on lockdown, we set up permanent colonies that can sustain themselves no matter what. Then we look for the next habitable planet and get our asses over there too!
I know some of you are thinking “Why waste money on space stuff when we got problems here?” Yeah, I hear you. But listen up – one big-ass space rock slamming into us and it’s game over forever for everything that ever existed on this planet. We can’t risk that, you dig?
Saving our entire species and the whole history of life itself, that’s the real priority here. We don’t know what kind of crazy planet-killing events could happen as our sun moves through the galaxy. Gamma ray bursts, black holes, alien invasions, you name it! We gotta be ready to bounce if shit goes down.
The sad truth is, us humans never really get our act together until something terrible happens. And even then, we forget all about it pretty quick. That’s why there’s a picture of a dead Earth on the Newsi8 homepage – to remind people every damn day that we need a Plan B planet, or we’re screwed.
Our sun’s gonna burn out one day no matter what. We’re on borrowed time here. Now that we know that, we gotta get our act together as a species and work towards getting off this rock before it’s too late. Can you imagine a world where everyone’s focused on that one goal? Working together to make sure life keeps on rocking somewhere, anywhere out there in the cosmos? We got so lucky to make it this far. We owe it to life itself to give it our best shot at survival.
So let’s do this thing! Who’s with me? Let’s shred till the end and go out in a blaze of glory!
More Shit to Read:
[1] https://theresnoplanetb.net
[2] https://www.wholesomeculture.com/products/there-is-no-planet-b-sweatshirt
[3] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-1-january:-february/feature/there-no-planet-b-kim-stanley-robinson
[4] https://sarahbassett.co/there-is-no-planet-b-mike-berners-lee/
[5] https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Planet-Handbook-Updated/dp/110882157X
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKlxXcIPF2I
