According to the JSP, “We do not promote any particular point of
view.” Yet if you heard our Senior Science Reporter talk about the
first private space walk the other day, you’ll know what I’m
getting at. She was positively besotted, using superlatives like
“historic,” and “amazing” often. If that’s not promoting a point of
view, I don’t know what is. (And she’s not the only one.)
Apparently piles of people see the space race as a noble
venture, fulfilling our need to “go where no man has gone before.”
Lots don’t, including myself. With Planet Earth struggling to
shrug off war, famine, poverty, disease and climate catastrophe, I
see countless dollars and rocket fuel being wasted in a quest to go
to a place where there’s no food, no water, no atmosphere, little life
of any kind.
News flash, folks!
We have all of those things right here under our feet
around us! I’m not suggesting our science reporters embark on
quest tomorrow to discredit the space race. Just grow some
skepticism and ask “why” for a change. It should be what we do.
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