{"id":80269,"date":"2018-06-30T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/elon-musk-this-is-why-we-have-to-build-civilizations-in-space"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:07:10","slug":"elon-musk-this-is-why-we-have-to-build-civilizations-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/elon-musk-this-is-why-we-have-to-build-civilizations-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: This is why we have to build civilizations in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-this-is-why-we-have-to-build-civilizations-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanity is not perfect, but it\u2019s all we\u2019ve got,\u201d the SpaceX and <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"74213\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"TSLA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=TSLA\">Tesla<\/a> boss said.<\/p>\n<p>To safeguard human life requires moving beyond the blue planet, in Musk\u2019s view, because earth is likely to become uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be some <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/2017\/06\/16\/elon-musk-colonize-mars-before-extinction-event-on-earth.html\">eventual extinction event<\/a>\u201d if humans stay on earth forever, Musk said in an article published in academic <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/online.liebertpub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1089\/space.2017.29009.emu\">journal New Space<\/a>, which was published online in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/06\/26\/elon-musk-on-twitter-why-we-have-to-build-civilizations-in-space.html?__source=Facebook|main\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/06\/26\/elon-musk-on-twitter-why-we-...ebook|main<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHumanity is not perfect, but it\u2019s all we\u2019ve got,\u201d the SpaceX and Tesla boss said. To safeguard human life requires moving beyond the blue planet, in Musk\u2019s view, because earth is likely to become uninhabitable. \u201cThere will be some eventual extinction event\u201d if humans stay on earth forever, Musk said in an article published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,12,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-existential-risks","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}