Chapter 10With a slow, even pace, Montreal Jackson headed towards the craft that would enable him, and the rest of its crew, to be the first people to land on Mars. Only took just over a century from landing on the Moon, but when you think what we’ve been through, it’s a miracle we’re here at all.
The intervening years had been cruel to many people in the world: pandemics, viruses, climate change. Earth was a vastly different place to a century ago. Now, if you fail to wear your masks when a virus hits, you’re shunned, deemed to be problematic rather than patriotic. If anyone still tried to deny climate warming, they were regarded in much the same way or pitied as unable to grasp simple facts.
It’s almost impossible to believe just how hard those who could see the impending crisis had to
