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I don't see how we can successfully make use of Earth's resources without destroying the planet in the process.

• geofft 9y ago
  That's why I'm curious what the cost is for transporting both resources and communities between planets and especially between solar systems. If we can do so cost-effectively, then we can slowly destroy Earth, move people to Mars gradually as Earth becomes less habitable, and finally leave just a team of miners and nobody else on Earth, to slowly extract the last few resources. Then we need to do the same to Mars, and we need to find another planet, probably outside this solar system, to move people to as we exhaust Mars' resources. If we can't do that, then we will have Earth-humanity slowly die out as Earth's resources are exhausted, and Mars-humanity slowly die out as Mars' resources are exhausted, and nothing to do about it other than Mars-humans reading Earth's history books and realizing the farce. Alternatively, we can figure out, as a species, how to provide for everyone without destroying the planet we're on.