We live in an interacting system of market systems, governments, democracies, culture, and technological evolution on a blue, green, brown, and white planet. It

We live in an interacting system of market systems, governments, democracies, culture, and technological evolution on a blue, green, brown, and white planet. It is a giant spaghetti ball full of externalities and extremes. Masses of humanity lifted from poverty, massive extinction, climate change, rapid technological development. However, it only a few centuries ago led to massive slavery, population loss, etc... It is hard to say where this will lead but I suspect that it will continue to lead to both extremes and it's a good idea to spread our seed as widely as possible. Mars, Moon, etc... Because it's pretty much a guarantee that someone will screw up mightily and we're not talking just politics.