Maybe. But the political/industrial class would have mind-fucked us into clamoring to do nothing about it. If they went to Venus, only the people who could affo

Maybe. But the political/industrial class would have mind-fucked us into clamoring to do nothing about it. If they went to Venus, only the people who could afford or command it would have made it, and they would have died off almost immediately because they had no minions to hold up the bottom layers of civilization.