Alexa, what is earth trying to communicate?

It looks like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk know something better than most of us do. Their intense focus on space exploration is starting to make some sense.

There is something literally happening beneath our feet. “For the past 800 years, the picturesque Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland’s southwestern corner has been relatively quiet. But 15 months ago, there was an awakening. What started as a series of murmurs gave way to a dramatic crescendo that culminated in more than 17,000 earthquakes in the past week alone,” says a National Geographic article published on March 6, 2021[i].

A title on an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) science magazine webpage notes “Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West”[ii]. Butterflies are finding it increasingly difficult to beautifully strut and flutter on the face of the earth.

Will my grandchildren inherit at least the same earth that my generation is taking for granted? Or will quickening climate change cause humanity to put desperate faith in the space endeavors of Jeff and Elon?

By the way, will we be building a new stock exchange on this another planet that may have to shortly receive a human exodus even as climate change disassembles our beautiful earth’s ecosystems?

REFERENCES:

[i] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/swarm-of-earthquakes-shakes-iceland-are-volcanic-eruptions-next

[ii] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6533/1042.full