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We've demonstrated that we can heat planets up.

• ben_w 6y ago
  Unfortunately what we’ve demonstrated is that we make bad decisions if they’re cheap; that we have heated up the plant is merely because it happened to be the case that fossil fuels could power a population growth from 1 to 8 billion in a century and a half. The tech is available, it’s the politics that I doubt.
  • goatlover 6y ago
    The politics of terraforming a barren plant to make more suitable for colonization is going to be different from that of our home world.
    • ben_w 6y ago
      Of course. My concern is: will the politics remain aligned in the long term with keeping it habitable after it’s been terraformed?