We’re so disposed to reveling in our petty nationalist rivalries, we’re failing to see the big picture: We’re light years ahead of every other planet in every quality of life category there is.
Enjoy ice cream? Then don’t try and eat any on Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun. It’s 810-degrees there, a temperature which incinerates ice cream in less time than it takes to get the cone near your nose.
Try this: Think of Planet Earth the way an enterprising real estate agent would. We’re not some shabby little planet. We’re No. 1 in our entire solar system!
(Note a topic for another day: Although our home solar system is 4.06 billion years old, it remains unnamed)
Looking for good schools? Earth has the best schools.
Recreational opportunities? They estimate you could comfortably fit 1,381 Earths inside one Jupiter, yet there’s not one pickleball court on the whole Big Gassy.
Best place to raise kids? Best pizza? Best nightlife? Best sunrise? Diverse worship?
Earth! Earth! Earth!
Imagine the rout if we ever organize a planetary Olympics. We’d swamp the medal platforms.
So do not surrender to the doomsayers who complain Earth is over-populated, polluted, war-torn and on-track to implode by, oh, lunchtime tomorrow. Instead focus on the good and join me in coming up with a promotional slogan that attract interested galactic tourists and potential home buyers.
“Come and enjoy the best damn planet in the solar system! (Earth not responsible for life-threatening fluctuations in inhabitability minimums)
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