Opinion: Gandhi's quote

Mohandas K Gandhi's famous quote:

"There is enough on earth for everyone's need. But there isn't enough on earth for everyone's greed."

Me:

"There is more than enough in this galaxy for every critter's greed"

Let's face it. We all know, that our planet itself is one tight ship. Not everyone can afford food every day, let alone afford a car, a house or a private aircraft to travel from one country to another without any delays. We've all had our ears full of it since preschool, starting with this classic anecdote of a greedy dog that loses its loaf of bread to a reflection in the river.

Every luxury costs money we don't always have. It's because these luxuries, come from earthly materials that everybody else wants (I am talking economics-for-dummies here). You pay more for fuel every day because its rapidly depleting around the world. You pay more for food everyday because there are more hungry people, and less land to grow them on. Soon, you may have to pay for fresh air simply because there is not enough of it left on this planet. People are already capitalizing on it by calling it "therapeutic". In nutshell, our planet, one day will become so full and overcrowded, life itself will no longer be worth living, to most people!

But what if that could be changed? Let's say, you found a way to survive the harsh, dryness of the Sahara. What if you could grow food on the south pole? Wouldn't you want to capitalize on it? Wouldn't it create a sudden abundance of it? In fact, something similar happened to many nations in the early 19th century. It's called oil, remember?

Now, what if you could extend this to nearby planets. We could mine iron from mars, strike oil on the moon, or find large quantities of Uranium on an Asteroid nearby! We could establish cities on the vast emptiness of space, build factories without worrying about pollution and thrive! Such, are the possibilities of extra-terrestrial colonization. Doing this will create jobs, give rise to new cultures, make new technological inventions , find cures to deadly diseases, open markets for virtually every verb spoken on the planet and ultimately make our world exponentially more exciting! And all this can be done without depriving another living being of its possessions; something that has rarely been done back here on earth.

Mind you, none of this is my idea. It's a collective result of my showing interest in Extra-terrestrial life.

PS: Just another highlight on why I find ET more and more interesting.