Columbus Persuasive Speech

Establishing a colony on mars is not an option, it is a necessity. Clearly, the next logical step for our race is to expand out into the stars, into the unknown. The Human race has to put more effort and resources into space exploration. It is in our deep underlying nature to explore, we are a curious animal that wants to discover all it can, we just need the tools to do so. We need the next Christopher Columbus, we need someone with the drive and will to explore the unknown.
Resources on earth are dwindling and we need to do something about it

Sure we have issues on the Earth. We have people suffering and diseases spreading but space can inspire generations of kids, knowing they may have a future on a different planet or a really meaningful
We can solve world issues like world hunger and overcrowding by growing crops and moving people out into our solar system. We can bring a whole new industry of trade. We can build infrastructure and technologies with these resources that are literally beyond imagination. Millions of job opportunities can be opened up, from a space janitor to a commander of a spacecraft. Anyone's dreams and aspirations can really come true. We can create a solid backup of the human race on a different planet. We have been coming up with plans to go to mars for 65 years. The plans are around. The research has been done. We can do it, we just need to go. We can send all the rovers and drones that we want to the red planet. But what a rover can do in its entire lifetime can be accomplished by a human in one single day. Rovers have only scratched the surface humans can explore so much more. To go to mars it takes all of us. Every race, religion, country, and creed. We unite to achieve anything we can unite together and reach mars. Going to the moon united us all and inspired a generation at a time of worry and anguish. Going to mars will do the same. Impossible is a word humans use far too often, Mars is certainly not