Some people are of the viewpoint that upgrading facilities such as healhcare, educationa and

business are pivotal for the overal progresss of pooreer nations.

Allocating funds to the right field is the duty of the government. While one school of thought holds
the view that authorities should employ money on space research, others consider this as a sheer
wastage of citizens share and claim to address numerous issues on earth as a prior. This essay is an
attempt to analyse both these views and arrive at a logical conclusion.

on the one hand, advocates of the former part of given statement assert that earth is encountering
impending crises of natural resources including fossile fuels and potable water. For instance, the
international survey by environmental sciences revealed that 50 per cent of the fossil fuels had
already been exhausted. It is, thus, imperative to discover life in alternative planets. In addition, two
third of the earth is water, out of which only one per cent is potable, and that too is being
deteriorated with the increased waste. For example, recently in Punjab, the sugar factory drained
the poisonous liquid into Beas River. As such, with the increased population, natural resources are
being exhausted faster than ever before and the government is in quest of favourable life on other
planets.

However, the defenders of the latter of given statement opine that space exploration necessitates
atronomically huge sums of money, and this money had better be spent on arresting the issues on
our planet first. As an example, employing states' funds on establishing natural power generation
plants such as wind energy, solar energy and tidal energy. Therefore, fixing the energy crises through
natural methods will pave the way to the lack of fossil fuels. moreover, the government should
expend money on the healthcare of the people and improve the infrastructure. Thus, people have
many issues here on earth to be fixed first, and it is the sole accountability of the government.