What on earth makes you say that Tone the Wone?
Space travel will in the medium term (say the next 100 years) be essential for our survival. We are rapidly running out of resources such as precious metals and certain organics, all of which are readily available in huge quantities on other planets and asteroids. The only way we will ever get to them is by developing commercial space travel. Seeing as governments are only capable of looking to the next election, it will be the private sector that will take the risks although once the system is up and running the governments will be only too glad to tax it.
You might also consider the possibility of collision with a lump of flying rock which could end all life on earth, with no space tracking network we would never see it comming, and with no launch capability there would be no chance of deflecting its course. Eventually the sun is going to turn into a red giant and cook every planet in the solar system. With no space travel, that will be sayonara for the human race. There are some fundamentalist greenies who may be tempted to say good riddance to all of us nasty polluting humans, but every other species, plant and animal, is for the chop as well.
Try and look at the bright side Tone unless you are one of the druid types who demands all progress be stopped and/or reversed. If the majority thought that way we would never have come down from the trees in the first place.