Marsification
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Marsification is a neologism that critiques claims that the colonization of Mars is a viable strategy for dealing with the ecological crisis on Earth. The term presents the broader techno-utopian ideology which embraces space colonization as an extension of worldviews such as Manifest Destiny and the logic that drives ecocide.
The definitions include:
- The various cultural, political and economic processes through which techno-salvationist fantasies divert our attention from the dominant global economic system's erosion of Earth's capacity to support life.
- The expansion of colonial fantasy beyond the atmosphere of the Earth.
It has a verb tense, "marsify", which is defined as:
- Using techno-salvationist fantasy to transcend dire physical and ecological realities on Earth.
- To attempt to solve a problem in the most statistically unlikely and unselfconsciously grandiose way possible.