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Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base (www.bbc.com)

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

This is ignoring the massive costs in building, staffing, and maintaining a moon base. There are battery chemistries that do not rely on lithium and even there weren't, we wouldn't need to fight wars over it. The wars are fought in an attempt to control those resources, even if not scarce. Expanding territory does not reduce scarcity when the scarcity is artificial (so that a few can exert control over the many). Also, why would the earth be depopulated while mars somehow thrives?