She smiled. “The first thing we do is stop planting corn.” “And plant what?” “What people need. - Daniel Suarez

And yet on Earth, we spend a trillion dollars on war without blinking an eye. With each passing year, the chance of a global catastrophe mounts — the climate, an epidemic, a financial crash, or a war that shrouds Earth in space debris and prevents us from reaching space. Possibly ever again. Humanity’s future depends on going — now, not later.

even if today we reduced carbon emissions to zero — and we’re far from that — the amount of CO2 already in the atmosphere will cause the Earth to keep warming for a century or more.

If not in San Francisco, then where? Not Madison, Wisconsin, again, please, dear God.