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Originally Posted by synaesthetic
Space development is the only solution.
If we don't expand beyond Earth, we may well become extinct or be forced to enact massive depopulation measures--either officially sanctioned or through terribly destructive wars--in order to prevent going extinct.
We're basically doomed if we don't expand, but if we do and we do it well, we're virtually ensured existence in perpetuity.
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I completely fail to see the point of intentionally lower the population. The more children a family has, the less resource is dedicated to each child, the harder it is to maintain a quality of life. And it is a fact that most advanced economies have negative birth rates.
Most of the increased population are from the poor nations. And the poor don't use much energy because they can't afford them. The more wealth a population has, the more energy they demand, but the lower their birth rates would be.
Population explosion is now debunked. Yes, finite energy sources will one day run out, but it has nothing to do with the size of the population. Your dreams of mass organised killings is nothing more than movie plotlines.
We would move into the stars when we need to. But if we don't figure out how to live on Earth sustainably, there would be no way we can survive on an alien planet or on a space colony ship. So in that sense trying to go to Space wouldn't solve our problem; if we live sustainably then we never really have to leave Earth. If we don't live sustainably then the rest of the universe wouldn't be big enough for us to pillage forever.