Re: This rock, this watery pearl, this pale blue dot.

So from a strictly science fiction point of view mind you, this is what
you would do.

You would take a platoon of marines, up to the precambrian shield
around Sudbury or so, where there is lots and lots of mineral deposits
including diamonds and lots of freshly polluted water, but the
pollutants can be filtered out, and you say this, is where humanity
makes its stand.
And you confiscate everything and enslave all the Candians - that will
cost you a quarter of a million bucks or so, and you build a giant
fortress complex built to survive whatever the universe might throw at
it, and you even tunnel under the ground into the solid bedrock.

A functional city, self supporting, like a biosphere but not air tight
just one that in case of emmergency, or even lets say the Andromeda
Strain scenario, that is already there and functioning and all you have
to do is lift the drawbridge and it becomes impervious.

You may have one second's notice, if a large bolide comes out of
nowhere or maybe a week, in case of epidemic or maybe two weeks in case
of super volcano but whatever happens, you are already there and you
are already in operation.

You have all the genetic record and the Noah's ark thing done and
stored, you have the Internet backed up, you have all the synthesized
chemicals and samplings of every culture, a total record of
civilization as we know it.

You have people of every field, you have everything safe and food
production facilities, free from whatever ravages might happen. You
have a safe zone.

It is open to the public as well, providing people undergo a quaranteen
period and leave all belongings outside the fortress.

It is futuristic, safe, well organized pleasant, crime free, and built
to wistand everything except maybe a direct hit from a comet moon or
asteroid of huge proportions.

And then life might be preserved. As it is, it appears to be the rarest
and therefore most precious commodity, in a universe of unimaginable
size, and we the keepers of it, well they should have got keepers with
larger brains maybe, but we are not really protecting it from anything.

We are the kind, that sit and cry, while all those around us are dying,
when in fact we should be the kind to keep our heads and do what needs
to be done to preserve this rarest of rare commodities.

To construct it, you merely say to the people look, this is your
planet, you will dedicate 6 months to this project, to help ensure the
survival of the human race.
And you will donate whatever 200 dollars each or some base tax and
money can be collected from people through some sort of tariffs or road
tax or whatever.

But you see unless you just went ahead with force and took the land,
took the minerals and took the water, from what? 100 people who have
all those holdings?
If you don't confiscate those things it wouldn't get done.
And our government is not capable of passing any law without asking
little old ladies on farms in Saskatewan for permission and they would
ask Oprah or or someone first before they gave their permission
anyways. So really if it were a Candian issue we would just ask Oprah
and cut right to the chase, but this is a global issue, and America, is
in the driver seat.

.

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