Elon Musk’s colony on Mars will have to be vegan, according to a study about his plans on inhabiting the red planet.
Elon has said people will live in glass domes while the planet is being made suitable for human life. The community will use solar-powered hydroponic farms to grow their fruits and vegetables.
The Mars rocket, Starship, will likely make its first test orbit around the planet this year, and people are beginning to question how humans will be able to settle on Mars.
John K. Strickland from the National Space Society wrote an essay for the Space Review and suggested that the community eat a plant-based diet. He says the population of 5,000 could be fed on 0.3 square miles of farm spread over four levels.
Musk plans to start supplying the planet with the necessary equipment in 2024 and have the first crew arrive by 2026. His goal is to make a self-sustaining city on Mars by 2050.
If we are able to make life self-sustaining on Mars, we will have passed one of the greatest filters. That then sets us up to become interstellar.
Earth is ~4.5B years old, but life is still not multiplanetary and it is extremely uncertain how much time is left to become so.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2021
The people living there will have no choice but to follow a vegan diet, and Musk plans to bring animals to the planet eventually. However, residents may be surprised by the diet’s benefits and changes in how they feel. This could start a massive wave of a vegan community inhabiting Mars.
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According to Derrick Jensen, author of “The Myth of Human Supremacy,” paraphrasing: Dawkins is not alone in perceiving humans as causing their own nearterm extinction. Stephen Hawking has famously remarked that in order to keep from driving ourselves extinct, humans need to colonize space. The real point, apart from Hawking’s appalling–but completely typical for this anthropocentric culture–lack of concern for everyone else on the planet, is that even though he understands that human behavior is killing the planet, he refuses to question human supremacism, or the RIGHT of humans to murder every known living being in the universe. Him and just about everyone else in this culture.