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Re:China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout by EForEndeavour on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @10:55AM (#18912019)
I don't understand human psychology well enough to be sure, but I could see it easily going the other way for some people. "We've got a self-sustaining colony on Mars! Finally, we can stop obsessing over such petty terrestrial details like CO2 and plastic waste that we once thought were so important to our species."
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Re:China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:08PM (#18913896)
I can easily see it going both ways at the same time.

Space colonization will be a strong forcing function for developing high-efficiency technology. Hell, it'll force us to comprehend the energy budgets to much deeper levels. I could see this resulting in a lot of new products and new ways of doing things.

At the same time, if on the social/cultural level, people start to feel that Earth is just but one place available to people, I can imagine them naturally care less.

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