They assume that a space faring civilization is identical to us down to capitalism, technology, fossil fuel dependency, education, politics, tradition, everythi

They assume that a space faring civilization is identical to us down to capitalism, technology, fossil fuel dependency, education, politics, tradition, everything, but this assumption is self defeating: we have all these properties and space travel is infeasible to us, consequently any other civilization that has all the same properties is unable to travel between stars either.