It'd be great if we could first make everyone on this planet happy and then move on to the next one, but it's just not going to work that way. Long tail of human unhappiness will be very hard to eliminate.
Your mix of problems is highly heterogeneous. Starvation and diseases are serious challenges we have in fact been making a lot of progress on. However, they pose more limited and localized danger than global warming or planetary confinement and so must be given a lower priority.
Violent governments and drug problems are political and so out of scope. Gating space exploration on all politician playing nice and all people staying clean and sober is the best way to doom the project.
Making electric, environment friendly cars be perceived as luxury and something one can aspire to is a small step in the right direction. Also, they're luxury because the technology is expensive. Cells phone began as luxury product, too. Eventually, they'll become mainstream.
Violence and starvation are not a 'long tail' of human happiness. The market that can afford Teslas is much further down the tail than people subject to these problems.
Your mix of problems is highly heterogeneous. Starvation and diseases are serious challenges we have in fact been making a lot of progress on. However, they pose more limited and localized danger than global warming or planetary confinement and so must be given a lower priority.
Violent governments and drug problems are political and so out of scope. Gating space exploration on all politician playing nice and all people staying clean and sober is the best way to doom the project.
Making electric, environment friendly cars be perceived as luxury and something one can aspire to is a small step in the right direction. Also, they're luxury because the technology is expensive. Cells phone began as luxury product, too. Eventually, they'll become mainstream.