Should we come to together as a human race, one people and explore this huge space around us, pushing our civilization, thought process, philosophies, ideologies (but to name a few) to the very edge of space as we know it, helping us evolve once again as a people or should we be content with earth, continually fighting over natural resources that if managed well might be enough to go around
Lets discuss
I say we spend billions in space. Here is my reasoning, "idle hands are the devils playthings", and if we're not doing constructive we're going to do something terribly stupid like blow ourselves off the face of the earth.
Secondly, the survival of the human race depends on reaching out to space and colonizing other planets. Whether it can be done or not is another question, but waiting for ourselves to blow ourselves to kingdom come isn't a option I'm interested in taking.
As for evolving, that's entirely correct, because if we push out to somewhere new we can leave behind the things that we could never get over at home (like trivial matters of me being black or you being white, etc). Some humans just wont let things go forward, and if that's the case why not leave them behind? Its what America was about when it started, except there isn't anywhere else to go except up now days. Otherwise we're just recycling ourselves on this planet, with one government falling so another can rise up which thinks its infallible.
Still, despite all that, we've got to be practical about space travel instead of believing we'll get there in 10 to 20 years. Just because it wont have for us isn't a reason not to do it either, making others miserable just because your miserable is no way to go through life, even if the people your making miserable are five generations down the line.