“Let’s stop all progress until we deal with insert_your_problem_of_choice” has never been a good take
I mean, sure, most of the time.
But when one is "a shit ton of kids is starving" and the other is "vanity moon mission we don't gain knowledge from"...
Yeah, maybe address the starving kids first.
but I doubt that starving children in India is actually a mere money problem. It looks more like a wealth distribution problem, and that one doesn’t get fixed by stopping space programs.
India flat out said the reason for this program is for PR...
It's not science, it's not innovation, or the pursuit of knowledge.
The reason they've spent decades and billions on this, is to try and seem like India is a 1st world country.
That could also be accomplished by not having one of the world's highest rates of childhood starvation and malnourishment.
Instead they ignore that for "flashier" methods.