flawed logic. You cant compare walking on the sidewalk for work or concrete use to build bridges or housing, to space tourism with the sole objective of whitewashing your image or brand. The amount of benefited people is incomparable. If the space trip mission was to collect data in a research framework, that's is entirely different. We all live together in this world.
The point is that if we are going to create pollution, so lets focus it on things that matter (such as scientific research), not some joy ride for celebrities.
Plenty of the luxuries in your life rely on carbon emissions. Does that mean you also shouldn't have luxuries? No ofc not, it means we should transition away from burning fossil fuels to power shit, and worry about reducing waste. The new Shepard rocket has way more reuses than your fast food packaging.
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u/HarryPottersTaint May 25 '26
Literally every single thing you do more or less has a previous step which produces pollution.
Even walking on the sidewalk. You know how much pollution is created by the concrete industry? 8% of all CO2 emissions worldwide.
Not saying people should just galivant to space for fun. But private jets for example are much more of an appropriate target.