First We Poisoned Earth. Now We’re Coming for the Moon.

The Earth isn’t enough for us anymore. We’ve chewed it up, drilled it out, choked it with smoke and plastic until even the oceans are coughing. Now the same governments, billionaires, and industries that treated our planet like an ATM and a landfill have a new target: the Moon.

NASA’s plan to plant nuclear power on the lunar surface is being dressed up as a bold leap for science. But strip away the glossy press releases and you see what it really is — the opening act in a land grab, fueled by the same industrial greed that has brought Earth to the brink. Nuclear reactors on the Moon aren’t about poetry or progress. They’re about establishing the power infrastructure for mining, militarization, and profit extraction in a place that has been untouched for billions of years.

The Moon is not some dead rock waiting for exploitation. It is a stabilizing force for Earth’s climate and tides, a cosmic constant that predates every human civilization. And yet the arrogance of our species knows no bounds. We failed to care for our own home, but rather than learning humility, we’ve decided to export our contamination.

History is a grim preview. Wherever industry goes, corruption follows: backroom deals, corporate monopolies, environmental devastation. Once nuclear power is humming away on the Moon, there will be no shortage of “stakeholders” lining up for lunar gold rush rights — rare metals for smartphones, helium-3 for reactors, military outposts to “protect national interests.” The press releases will talk about “advancement for humanity,” but the ledger books will tell the real story.

And here’s the truth they won’t put in a mission statement: if a nuclear accident happens up there, it will scar the Moon for the rest of time. There is no EPA for space. There is no cleanup crew. The damage will be permanent — and for what? So a handful of companies and countries can get richer while the rest of humanity watches another world be consumed by the same machine that’s killing ours.

We once looked at the Moon with awe and reverence. Now we’re ready to look at it through the crosshairs of greed. This isn’t exploration. It’s conquest. And if we let it happen, we won’t just have destroyed our planet — we’ll have started the slow death of another.