She notes that if we don’t want to bring war, inequality, exploitation, resource depletion, and injustice with us when we eventually settle in space, all we have to do is eliminate those things on Earth first. And we must do it now, not once all the technical challenges have been solved and we’re ready to leave the planet. If we want a civilization worth exporting ito space, we must create it here.
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That's not how progress happens. Settlers fled oppression and famine in the old world to try their luck in the colonies. A select few humans will do the same in the coming decades. It took Europeans around 400 years to fully colonize the Americas. They had ships and the most simplistic weapons and tools. We have an endless array of technologies which would be considered magic even a few decades ago (3d printing, genetic engineering, drones/robotics, AI....). We will go to space - some will be government funded, private ventures, a combination of the two....but we're going.
Runaway climate change, species and biome collapse, inequality, threats of war and conflict, authoritarianism.... none of this will be solved by delaying venturing into the final frontier.
