Question about Science and Politics?

Well to start please read the full details. I am wondering about two things. One where can I discuss this topic in length. The other is the actual question. The question is in two parts. One, where do we as humanity go from this point in our progress and how do we best achieve it. Two, why is this not a more pressing concern for both the people and our leaders. At this point in our progress we are developing new technologies everyday, but we are at a virtual standstill when it comes to overall progress. From my observations and from the data I can gather from the internet there is an important ratio progress to growth that must be maintained in order for humanity not to hit a breaking point. Now, our current focus has been to make life more enjoyable and to try to extend these things to the public at large. If we are to survive we must start focusing more energies on long term advancement. It seems that we do not address problems until they are upon us. uming we develop and put into use clean sources of energy were do we go from there? This brings me to my second part; are we content to just live our lives normally? The human race has survived because of exploration. We must explore new places if we are to survive but noone seems focused on that anymore. We must take our first small steps and begin preparations to colonize other places such as the moon and beyond. I cannot give a accurate number but to give an educated guess I'd say that more that 95% of the worlds population has no idea of the potential we have at the moment. If we wanted to we could within the decade make space travel no more dangerous than crossing the ocean in the days of New World exploration, and those chosen could begin to living and researching on the moon, our first step to launching a maned mission to mars. To end this, I must say that I find it very depressing that I will never see anything from a height greater than that of an airplane. More than likely even tho I am only 21 I will probably die from old age or something that is likely to come from not addressing our problems. (i.e. hitting a point that our planet cannot sustain our population and we die by the millions)