He has often looked at the earth from space: The
Astronaut Alexander Gerst has serious concerns about our planet.
Berlin – Astronaut Alexander Gerst has a very critical view of mankind and how they deal with the earth. "In fact, my colleagues and I sometimes looked out of the ISS viewing dome and imagined what extraterrestrials would think now," he told the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (RND).
“You would observe beings who are at war with one another and destroying nature. The question arises whether these aliens would classify us as intelligent life. Maybe they'd rather fly one planet first. "
Between his stays on the International Space Station ISS in 2014 and 2018, the earth changed visibly, said Gerst. “You could clearly see that the glaciers have become smaller. It was the same with the Aral Sea. On the other hand, cleared areas in the Amazon had grown, including deserts. ”But you don't have to fly into space in order to recognize this, there is also good scientific data. dpa
