That statement reminds me of the old Steve Martin joke
“How many people remember, a couple of years ago, when the Earth blew up?...
The Earth blew up and was completely destroyed? And we escaped to this planet on the giant Space Ark? Where have you people been? And the government decided not to tell the stupider people ‘cause they thought...Uh, let’s move on!”
Is that a real quote? They are currently building a lunar ark with over 6 million species, just incase we bow ourselves up. Then we can be replanted on one of 6 billion earth like planets in the Milky Way Galaxy.