Mission: Spaceship Earth vs. Moon

Have any of you even questioned why do we want to send another man to the Moon? Or why do we want to set up a colony up there? I've questioned it, and I fail to see the point. You mean to tell me that after 30 years of not going there, all of a sudden our government want to go there again. I my opinion we, with the aid of the government, have destroyed quite a bunch already here. We have extinct species, polluted, raped the land. I mean, where is the line drawn?
I read an article that went something along the lines that China and Japan are involved in a space program too, and we wou…