(Paris) The environment on Earth must be preserved, long before humans even think of colonizing Mars, which will never be as livable, Barack Obama, exceptional star guest at a conference on energetic transition.
The former US president spoke of “Silicon Valley tycoons, many of whom build spaceships […] I love space exploration, and I look forward to seeing us get to Mars and beyond […] But when I hear some people say that the plan is to colonize Mars because the environment on Earth could deteriorate, that it would become unlivable… But what do you say? ! »
“Even after a nuclear war, which I am not minimizing, Earth would be more livable than Mars! Even if we did nothing against climate change, it would still have oxygen, and as far as we know, Mars does not,” he explained, in front of an audience made up in particular of professionals from renewable energies, gathered in the amphitheater of the CNIT of Paris-La Défense.
“I would prefer that we invest in caring for this planet here. The reason we go into space is for its discovery, its knowledge, not because we are going to create a better situation there. »
We were designed for this place and it would be good if we preserved it, so that it remained livable.
Barack Obama
For an hour on stage, the former head of state, interviewed by a journalist, spoke about his action at the White House for the climate, the ecological transition (standards for industry, support for renewable energies in the midst of a crisis of 2008-2009), the preservation of natural areas…
However, he did not mention that of his successor, Donald Trump, who in 2017 took his country out of the Paris climate agreement, signed by Obama two years before. “The facts speak for themselves,” he simply said.
Barack Obama opened with this evening a meeting called Powr Earth Summit, organized by two renewable energy entrepreneurs and bringing together French players on the subject on Thursday and Friday.