Ubuntu lapha eMhlabeni bunomthelela omkhulu emvelweni. Abanye bakholelwa ukuthi ibhalansi yemvelo yephuliwe, okunikeze isigaba esisha sokuma komhlaba: i I-Anthropocene. Amazinga okushisa ayaqhubeka nokukhuphuka nezigxobo ziyancibilika ngezinga elihlala likhula. Uma lokhu kuqhubeka, ulwandle lungakhuphuka kakhulu kangangokuthi lungasiphoqa ukuba sakhe amabalazwe amasha.
Ingabe kufanele sithuthele eMars? Noma kungaba yisixazululo (ososayensi abaningi asebevele besibheka), Umqondisi weGoddard Space Flight Center (NASA) uGavin Schmidt ucabanga ukuthi akukufanele lokho. Futhi ngakho-ke wakwenza kwaziwa kwi-International Congress on Climate Change eHuelva.
USchmidt, osebenze njengomqondisi weNASA iminyaka emithathu, ukusho lokho uhambo ngalunye oluya esiteshini sasemkhathini, nempahla nokunye, kubiza phakathi kwama-euro ayizigidi ezingama-200 kuye kuma-250. Uhambo oluya eMars luzobiza kakhulu. Leyo yisamba semali esingenakukuthenga, okungenani okwamanje. Okwezazi, »ukuthuthela eMars kuyiphupho elihlanzekile"Futhi ngaphezu kwalokho," uMhlaba uzohlala uhlalwa kakhulu kunamanye amaplanethi. "
Inkinga ukuthi akuwona wonke amazwe anezinsiza ezanele zokuzivumelanisa nezimo. Kukhona abanye abanemali eningi kanti abanye banemali encane. Ngenkathi owokuqala ezokwazi ukuthatha izinyathelo ezidingekayo ukuze aqhubekele phambili, abanye ngeke bakuthole kulula kangako.
Ukuze akwazi ukubhekana nokuguquka kwesimo sezulu, uSchmidt ukusho lokho ohulumeni abanonembeza obucayi kumele bacindezelwe. »Kunabantu abaphika ukuguquguquka kwesimo sezulu noma abasondela kukho ngokubuka okungenalwazi. Ukushintsha imikhuba yomuntu wonke yomuntu ngeke kulungise ukushintsha kwesimo sezulu. Kuyadingeka okuningi, izinqumo zithathwa ezingeni eliphakeme.
Uma ufuna ukwazi okwengeziwe, chofoza lapha.