MELBOURNE | Are humans worth saving?

This month, Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is partnering with Science Gallery Melbourne to explore their 2019 exhibition theme: Disposable.

Are we a disposable species? The 20th Century has seen humanity dedicated to creating inbuilt obsolescence, single use everything, why should it not apply to the whole human race as well? We turned liquid dinosaur juice into fuel for our cars, we took perfectly happy and inert carbon and flung it into the atmosphere, and we built an entire economy on moving bits of plastic from one place to another, and then back again in the name of recycling. Which then mostly went into landfill.

Well, the land is very full now and we’ve not yet got around to locating a Planet B. No one has put there hand up and said that they’re willing to forego pasta and start eating plastic. When oil is down to its…