Now, Stay-at-Home! Who's sorry now?

Since NASA succeeded in putting man on the Moon we have given man’s age old dream a purposeful direction. With the initial success of 2005, People’s Republic of China plans to land their taikonauts( taiko means space in Chinese) and measure the abundance of helium-3, set up an astronomical telescope by 2017. Neil Armsrong’s grand gesture’one small step for man….’ is given a lead by the hand as it were, by the Chinese. They plan their ultimate leap forward by their space program Chang’e.
If the Apollo series manned missions of NASA (1969-1972) have given Shenzhou series (Szhenzou means divine vessel) the drive, mankind can only feel proud of the level of sophistication the human kind has attained.
The Earth has become too narrow for our intents and purposes, I say. Rightly too, what with global warming and acid rains our manifest destiny lay in ruins. We looked for our Promised Land in the New World and instead we barely see a thing ahead of us for the smog of our ambition. The Earth is no longer the idyllic Eden that we had envisioned once. So the Moon surely must hold a giant step for mankind.
If you believed in it you shall believe in anything. What do you think will get you there in the firstplace? Platitudes?
Already some hucksters are talking about reserving seats for you at 100 million dollars. It is not clear if the price is one way or not. One thing I am certain: Those Plutocrats who send up people to live there could not have made their millions in the first place if not for the Earth. Did they despoil or enrich the Earth? Who can answer that question? In whichever case these are the new breed of Haves.They shall be the Keepers of the New Colony, a Law unto Themselves.
A Colony did I say? Yes the New Earth or the New Jerusalem mentioned in the Book of Apocalypse.
Of course the Have-nots will be those who cannot afford to pay the price of passage to that colony: we shall be condemned to eke out our living in our home planet somewhat ruined irrevocably.
benny