Humanity now has the capacity to anhaliate all people from the Earth within a year with our nuclear arsenals. Even though Mutually Assured Destruction has preve

Humanity now has the capacity to anhaliate all people from the Earth within a year with our nuclear arsenals. Even though Mutually Assured Destruction has prevented this from happening yet, the statistics point to inevitable doom on a long enough timescale. Hell, we nearly wiped ourselves out several times since 1950. In such an environment, it makes sense to push towards interplanetary colonization as quickly as possible.