Why you, personally, should want a larger human population

Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by kiba on Sunday February 25, 2024 @12:13AM (#39497867)

The problem is really negative externality and pollution caused by production and consumption. That's really the core issue of our global economy and technological landscape, and probably the greatest constraint that limits us from expanding resource extraction.

Humanity is a civilization that lives on resource consumption of truly tiny amount of energy and materials compared to the whole that's available within this solar system.

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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by defrost on Sunday February 25, 2024 @12:18AM (#39497903)

There's a long narrow expensive isthmus between the gravity well of Earth and the rest of the solar system.

Colonies elsewhere are a fine idea if the goal is to expand the footprint of humans but there's limited prospect of that moving significant numbers off of the planet or improving the environmental balance here.

These are two almost orthogonal endeavours.

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