Too much focus on this planet
The idea of space exploration is to explore... space. Yeah, yeah,
it's real cool to see this blue and white ball hanging there in the
blackness and know that you can *really* see your house from up
there, but just head out a mere few billion miles and Earth is nothing
more than a pale blue dot:
http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html
There's a whole Universe out there, folks. I know you know that.
Now it's time to get the rest of the populace looking up and realizing
that, too. Otherwise this "oasis in space" will become our tomb.