despite the absolutely incredible accomplishment of Artemis II and the positive statements the crew have stated regarding humanity, i find it very hard to feel entirely optimistic given:
the sheer amount of misogyny Christina Koch and countless other women involved in this mission have been victims to
and, the fact that humans can venture the furthest we ever have into space, yet at the same time, there will be men on earth waging (nuclear) war onto whole civilisations of innocent people
it’s very possible that we will never find “intelligent” life elsewhere in the universe, given the sheer specific planetary conditions and large time scales required for intelligent evolved life forms to exist in the first place. it took earth 4 billion years and an incredibly, incredibly rare sequence of events to evolve human intelligence. it’s cosmically probable that we are a complete rarity in our galaxy
even if intelligence exists on another planet billions of light years away, there are the challenges of extreme interstellar distances and two civilisations even existing at the same relative time, making contact extremely challenging if not entirely implausible
despite our intellectual and moral obligation to protect earth, 10,000 years of patriarchy has not only hindered the incredible and rare progress of homo sapiens, but it is also pro-actively killing our home
patriarchal warfare has already killed millions of people throughout history, drove thousands of animals extinct, and both male “leaders” and the general public (meat eaters) do not care about climate change
it’s hard to celebrate when our earth - the only known harbourer of complex life in this vast and lonely universe - is being murdered
yes, the sun was always going to eat us up one day, but there’s a difference between accepting a “natural death” versus self-inflicted and entirely preventable terror, stemming ultimately from patriarchy - the basis for every other form of societal collapse, such as racism, late-stage capitalism, organised religion and factory farming
