"With all that's going on right now on Earth, why should our tax dollars be funding space adventures like the Artemis missions?"
This is an on-going question that many people ask and I'm not here to say it's, on the surface, a stupid question. There are a lot of issues here on terra firma we need to focus on and treat; yes, that's true. This is, and, most likely, will always be, the case. It was also the case in all previous space endeavors.
But we have the ability, and the resources, despite what people may think, to multitask. And to continue to postpone our goals at being a space faring species, one far-flung day, is only making that all much more prone to ultimate failure. Let's face it, Earth's sustainability is not infinite. We need to "reach for the stars" as it were, to "make it" to the next phase of humanity's future. Lofty and worthy of some fucking John Williams dramatic background theme? Well, yea. That's kinda the idea.
Even Gorok, the caveman sitting by the campfire looking up at the stars dreamed big. Maybe not space travel as he probably didn't even know what the fuck the dots of light in the night sky were, but he dreamed big nevertheless. And we eventually got where we are today. And we have to keep going.
This video is an excellent primer into the basics of the initial goals towards this end. Watch it and learn. And as it touts, it's 100% narrated by a human, not an AI voice bot... yeah!