Many people believe that funding space exploration is important. To what extent do you agree?

With the rise in global warming, life on

earth

is becoming endangered. Many are of the opinion that more funding should be given to exploring other planets where humans can live. I happen to agree with them.

To begin

with, many people think that the

earth

will

last

forever, but

this

is not true. Like all things in our ,universe the

earth

will

also

end. Due to the fact that as the sun ages it emits more heat which will make life on

earth

impossible. For

this

,reason we must explore other planets that humans can live on.

For example

, recent images from the Hubble space telescope revealed millions of galaxies which have human-friendly bodies of land. It would be wrong to not explore these options, as

this

can protect us from disaster.

Secondly

, natural reserves of energy

such

as fossil fuels and coal are no longer able to keep up with the world's energy demands. Exploring space can help provide a solution to

this

.

For example

, recent images from ultrasound waves showed large reserves of methane gas on nearby planets which can

last

for hundreds of years. So finding methods which would allow us to extract them would have great value. To conclude, both the fact that the

earth

will not

last

and natural reserves of energy are decreasing make valid arguments for funding methods to explore space.