Yes, for sure. I don’t think it’s very realistic in that regard, but in most other ways it seemed very realistic in my (unqualified) opinion. Especially the Lunar conflicts.

In For All Mankind, fusion was developed in the 90s and emissions dropped almost immediately. We are still burning fossil fuels and are at least decades from fusion power. We are already seeing climate catastrophe unravel.

Bro, we literally went to the Moon. Stop being misanthropic.

The majority of humanity will inhabit Earth for at least many hundreds of years. People, even in small numbers, will absolutely settle the Solar System, though. We could create a self-sustaining habitat almost anywhere in the near future.

People would undoubtedly travel. There might be rotating habitats dedicated as nature preserves.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the point of this sub?

If we can travel today I think we’ll be able to travel when we are living inside asteroids lol

I was meaning that we simply mine the Moon, not dismantle it entirely.

The limitations of space habitats are size. O’Neil cylinders are relatively easy to manufacture while also allowing comfortable living space, but they do not provide enough space for near total self-sufficient self-regulating ecosystems. McKendree cylinders are big enough to be pretty self-regulating, but they are so massive they would cost an insane amount while being inefficient like planets. If we want to recreate Earth in any meaningful way, it would have to be big. Mars is already big, and so I think terraforming it is valuable, along with Venus while we are at it :) Orbital habitats should 100% be pursued too though; the Moon can’t be terraformed meaningfully, so maybe we should mine it for habitats first.

Maximizing living space isn’t the end all be all of settling our Solar System. Ngl, it’s pretty big! Settling Mars, and especially terraforming it, would be extremely mind-boggling expensive, but it would be much cheaper than creating an equal amount of living area with O’Neill cylinders. Would this relegate the supermajority of Mars’ mass to generating a gravity well and nothing else? Yes. Does this really matter? I don’t think so. Unless we have a pressing need or desire to grow our population to quadrillions, I think it would be a little overkill to literally dismantle the entire freaking planet lmao. Personally, I value self-sustaining and ecologically balanced living spaces more, and I feel like the humanity that comes out the other end of the climate crisis would too. A terraformed or para-terraformed Mars would be large enough to be self-sustaining like this with plenty of room for expansion.