Anytime I see talk of mass colonization as part of a solution to overpopulation, I direct people to Charles Stross' discussion about the infeasibility of doing

Anytime I see talk of mass colonization as part of a solution to overpopulation, I direct people to Charles Stross' discussion about the infeasibility of doing so [1] [2]. The TL;DR is: until we find a breakthrough like cheap anti-gravity (like depicted in Interstellar), moving that much sheer mass of humanity is energetically (with the required specific impulse) not within our civilization's current capabilities. [1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high... [2] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/space-cadets.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/space-ca...