And I like to think I contributed to some humor around here including in my numerous #marsification posts like this thread. 16/19

In addition to all the other cruel, self-serving and outright murderous things that Trump's budget does it allocates $10 Billon for Mars! It's a scam brought to you by deluded techno-salvationist billionaires. Check out this great piece to see how Mars has been marketed to us all. #Marsification

Elon Musk wants us to believe that we can turn Mars into Earth so that we don't do anything about the fact global capitalism is rapidly turning Earth into Mars. #marsification 2/2

Marketing Mars As Mars missions gain momentum, a closer look at the cultural, political, and economic forces shaping humanity's push toward the Red Planet.

Highly recommend this @projectcensored.bsky.social article unpacking the billionaire obsession with Mars and showing why this techno-salvationist delusion is a threat to us all.

Written by the brilliant Zara Zimbardo who is also my collaborator on the neologism #marsification. 1/2

I have long mocked tech oligarch's Mar obsession but don't listen to me listen to @adambecker.bsky.social whose new book debunks tech-salvationist myths:

“Mars is terrible. Gravity is too low. Radiation is high. There is no air and the dirt is made of poison.”

Take that Elon 😆 #Marsification

What Does Elon Musk Want? Abundance. It Makes Strange Bedfellows. Ezra Klein, AOC, David Sirota, and Aaron Bastani are arguably on the same side as Musk, and that's awkward. Imagination Deficit Disorder, Part II, Chapter 2

Honored to be a literal talking head in a wide-ranging @richard.wickedproblems.earth essay about many things including contested narratives of the future and where they come from. My contribution is to tell people about the fun little neologism #Marsification (See wikipedia link in reply below)

KALW @ 220 Montgomery KALW Radio's pop-up experience is part of San Francisco's Vacant to Vibrant program to revitalize downtown spaces.

BAY AREA: Tonight 6-8 pm in SF get your #EarthDay grooves on at KALW's downtown pop-up #ClimateJustice listening party. Among the cool offerings you can catching sound artist @lilyrosesloane.bsky.social sharing some of her awesome concept album: #MARSIFICATION: A Tale of Planetary Grief

Screenshot of the wikipedia definition of the neologism "marsification" which has multiple definitions the first one is: “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.” But my favorite definition is for the verb tense “marsify” “To attempt to solve a problem in the most statistically unlikely and unselfconsciously grandiose way possible.”

#MARSIFICATION en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsifi...

The Starbase rocket testing facility is permanently changing the landscape of southern Texas SpaceX has brought both well-paying jobs and rocket debris to southern Texas.

More from on the impacts of Mr. #marsification himself, Elon Musk (aka "everyone's favorite fascist centibillionaire"), his so-called Starbase and the rockets that helped make him the richest man in the world while others pay the price for the ecological impact.

Screenshot of a NPR headline on Trump's inaugural address over a picture of a smiling clapping Elon Musk. Aka the world's richest man, a fascist centibillionaire who helped buy Trump's return to power with $277 million in direct campaign donations not to mention the $44 billion he spent buying twitter and converting it into an info warfare weapon. The headline reads: "It's America's 'Manifest Destiny' to plant a flag on Mars, Trump says"

Screenshot of the wikipedia definition of the neologism "marsification" which has multiple definitions but the first one is: “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.”

There is a word for Trump & Musk's astrocolonial madness. It's called: #Marsification. Don't let this dangerous,
techno-salvationist, ecological denial go unchallenged or un-mocked: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsifi...
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Whitey Out On Mars (feat. Chelsea Kigano) YouTube video by Lily Sloane - Topic

The world's richest man spending money on rocket ships rather than helping people....

Cut to a certain particularly topical Gil Scott-Heron tribute. #marsification www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

4/4 For anyone interested in deeper analysis about challenging TECHNO-FIX NARRATIVES and a case study around the neologism #marsification you can check out this blog post: www.patrickreinsborough.com/marsificatio...

2/4 But seriously: Techno-fix fantasy is an increasingly prominent part of the narrative superstructure propping up FOSSIL CAPITALISM. Don’t miss a chance to call it out and push back before it gets us all killed. #Marsification #ClimateSky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsifi...

1/4 “Muck” can’t speak for itself so it’s up to us. #Marsification #ClimateSky

#spacecolonisation #marsification #psychopathy #ClimateSky