Man heavily invested in future off-planet colonisation worried that reduction in birth rate might allow Earth to remain habitable.
Shocker.
What makes our civilisation so important, anyway? If anything we're at odds against everything else on the planet, we're hardly maintaining the equilibrium - far from it. I don't think we're going to be missed when our species finally succumbs to disease/war/asteroid/duck revolution.
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Nature is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 8 Dec 2021, 11:32,
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Well, yes. That too.
Although, I think that thanks largely in part to Sci-Fi, people tend to assume that a mini exodus to another hostile planet 34 million miles away (along with all the raw materials and consumables to sustain the ~500 lucky souls on their journey and to build the requisite facilities to successfully continue repopulation on planetfall) is somehow a far more realistic prospect than just building practically identical contained habitats here on our poisoned earth.
Mind you, I can absolutely see 500ish of the world's super-rich buggering off to Mars to start their new Utopia once things start to get really shit. So maybe he's not that deluded. Although, he'll have been dead a few years by then, unless he's planning on freezing himself or transferring his consciousness into a robot. Again, not a completely bonkers concept when you're discussing Musk.
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Yes, fantasists and children of all ages, love to imagine they can.
It's much easier than cleaning up the mess, that is left to the adults.
As for the super rich, give it a couple of weeks on a spacecraft and they'll be fighting each other for supremacy, who has the biggest willy/diamond/ego/whatever.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 8 Dec 2021, 20:54,
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