Elon Musk's Urgent Concern: That the Earth Is Going to Get Swallowed by the Sun

Billionaire Elon Musk seems to be far more concerned about delivering humanity to Mars, a planet that's incredibly hostile to life, than ensuring we have a place to call our home over the next 100 years. Instead of meaningfully addressing a growing climate crisis, he's pursued the stripping of environmental regulations, actions that could have devastating consequences for humanity in the short term. In a new interview with Fox News, Musk attempted to justify his long-held plans for making humanity "interplanetary" by establishing a self-sustaining presence on Mars. "Mars is life insurance for life collectively," Musk said. "So, eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the Sun. The Sun is gradually expanding, and so we do at some point need to be a multi-planet civilization because Earth will be incinerated." But what Musk failed to mention was that this grim fate won't happen for another six billion years — making it an incredibly un-compelling reason to give up on the Ea ... Read full article.