I dispute that we're chopping down the last trees. I think it's tough to argue that the earth isn't still the option that's most hospitable to life. In the Eas

I dispute that we're chopping down the last trees. I think it's tough to argue that the earth isn't still the option that's most hospitable to life. In the Easter Island metaphor, space migration strikes me as the islanders who control most of the resources opting to chop down the rest of the trees to build rafts for themselves. There might be viable options for rehabilitating our ancestral homeland if they'd use their resources differently. But if we let them take remaining resources with them, all bets are off.