In A City On Mars, biologist #KellyWeinersmith and cartoonist @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social set out to investigate the governance challenges of the impending space settlements they were told were just over the horizon. Instead, they discovered that humans aren’t going to be settling space for a very long time, and so they wrote a book about that instead:
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr There is literally nothing that can happen to the Earth to make it less habitable than any other place in the Solar System. Short of the planet breaking up into pieces, any place else would require vastly more resources and effort to make liveable.
I am in favour of space settlement, but any practical arguments for it beyond scientific value are specious.