I’m not shrugging off the problem, and people should be extremely wary to the point where I think it makes sense to portray the situation as if we would be lock

I’m not shrugging off the problem, and people should be extremely wary to the point where I think it makes sense to portray the situation as if we would be locked to earth forever if it got out of hand so cleanup is never necessary. However I think people underestimate ingenuity and the ability to solve the cleanup problem if we really have to. I don’t know how much effort has really be invested in hitting that cleanup problem as hard as possible, as most discussion about it currently is theoretical, and there isn’t a lot of financial benefit to researching it. If it starts preventing launches, then the incentives to hit the problem harder increase. It’d obviously be better not to be forced into figuring out whether that problem is solvable, my point is it’s not set in stone that it’s an unsolvable problem, and the incentives are currently such that I don’t think we can consider possible solutions adequately explored.