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Amen! If it turns out we can’t make humans a multiplanetary species in any reasonable timeframe, at least we can make the last few decades of livable earth climate a friendly atmosphere for US business interests.


Even the worst expected impacts of climate change will leave earth tremendously more habitable than anywhere else in the solar system.


Even a nuclear war would have that outcome. Even a KT boundary scale asteroid impact would have that outcome. The rest of the solar system is just hell.


There are plenty of imaginable events where being multiplanetary would help.


Like what? Gray goo?




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