Comment Re:One small step for man (Score 2, Insightful) 920
The solution to moving humanity forward is to move off our planet. Every year we delay is one more that brings us closer to extinction. We have LOTS of resources now.
Great idea. Do you have somewhere in mind? As you point out, it's a resource issue. Where could we go where we'd have an abundant supply of oxygen and water, so that we wouldn't have to waste our limited resources on either producing them or having them shipped from earth?
Nobody ever takes 'ecosystem services' seriously, but if you think there's any possible way we could establish off-world colonies that are within several orders of magnitude of the same level of resource efficiency we have on earth, you're off your rocker. We currently have access to dwindling fossil fuels, abundant oxygen, water, and renewable food sources. Anywhere else, we start from nothing. I'll take the odds on fixing what we've got over starting from nothing, thanks.