Ocean Catastrophe

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Imagine, one day looking out the window at the sky, when an enormous meteorite is descending toward. A natural catastrophe dwarfing that which ended the rein of the dinosaurs. As soon as the meteorite hits, half of North America’s population is instantly vaporized. Then, quickly following, the airborne dust and debris surrounds Earth and blocks out the sun. Within months We would be completely extinct. Stopping that sort of catastrophe is pretty far fetched, but the solution could be us, as the human race, venturing out and becoming an interplanetary species. If some catastrophe happened on Earth or any other planet we occupied then, there would be other whole planets to rely on to keep the human race alive. We have made the first few steps to be coming an interplanetary species already; when we landed on the moon in 1969. It was a very successful launch and we advanced technologically so much just from the one landing. While they were there the two astronauts gathered samples of lunar-surface materials for return to Earth. They also extensively photographed the lunar terrain, the deployed scientific …show more content…
North Atlantic cod stocks have collapsed from an estimated 264,000 tons in 1970 to under 60,000 in 1995 and between 1970 and 2002 forest cover has dwindled by 12 percent (2002). The way we’re going, we wont last on Earth for much longer. Its time to start reaching towards the stars. We are stripping the planet of resources too fast to compensate for and at this point we’re too far to just bounce back from this. That combine with the growing population of mankind is going to force us off this planet. There’s no way we can survive unless we start colonizing space; whether we travel to other planets or live in space stations, we better start moving towards that goal

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