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Israeli_pride t1_ixge4ct wrote

No and no. But eventually there will be a moral imperative to stop impacting nature. To contain our impact on biodiversity through water and land usage, we’ll need Urbanization and desalination and vertical farming. But that’s also exactly what we need for space colonies. (and nuclear propulsion.) In hundreds of years, leaving Earth alone will become a moral imperative, driving further space colonization.

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