Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: August 2, 1949 |
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.