Why not do both in parallel? A few decades of pausing space progress now could have a much bigger impact than later, and it’s not like space travel is so easy t

Why not do both in parallel? A few decades of pausing space progress now could have a much bigger impact than later, and it’s not like space travel is so easy that we’ll suddenly wake up colonizers of the entire solar system. Did you fully mature before you went out into the world? Sometimes making relatively small mistakes is the fastest way to learn. “Move fast and break things”, but on the species scale.