> should human society settle on the planet

_On_ Venus? That seems unlikely; if anything it'd be _above_ Venus (there's a not-that-absurd argument that sections of Venus's atmosphere are far more hospitable than, say, Mars, and of course this tickles sci-fi writers' love of big airships, so it comes up a lot in fiction).

(Though I assume that even then, the whole surface exploding would be undesirable.)