Originally Posted by
Donnadogsoth
A fine display of pessimism. But, you haven't been paying attention: I'm not talking about increasing actual population density, I'm talking about increasing potential population density, as a measure of our resilience and power projection into the Universe. Yes, this means developing fusion, and whatever lies beyond fusion. This will ensure our standard of living can continue to improve, even for those inconvenient people in the tropics who must be overjoyed at the prospect of having to choose between drug refrigerators and air conditioning because of the ecology nuts' insistence on energy conservation. 'Cause polar bears'n'crap.