Spot on. The real opportunity in space lies with growth on a scale that Earth simply can't support.
I want to hear more about that as an alternative to terrestrial limits to growth based paradigms.
I want to hear more about that as an alternative to terrestrial limits to growth based paradigms.
The cost to keep one human alive in space is logistically incredibly expensive. It'll get cheaper the more infrastructure we put up there, sure, and eventually we may see space-based colonies become self-sufficient. But I don't see it happening any time soon.
Meanwhile, current projections suggest that ~2050, human population is going to get very hard to maintain. Even if we could get 100,000 people living in space by then it would be a drop in the ocean.