Quote Originally Posted by Donnadogsoth View Post
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.
No. Itīs simply realism to realize where we're standing right now, what happens around us, measure our impact and footprint and act accordingly, because we have evolved to the point that we begin to see the big picture and this still includes us being a part of the natural world around us.

What we destroy is gone, never to come back, with no chance to recreate it. We do not get some kind of loan or venture capital for it, there is no deal that we overextend/overconsume now but will make it up once we have fusion and can conduct asteroid mining. That's not how it works.

We have fallen into the predator dilemma and will soon start to suffer from it, where soon is dependent on how efficient we are getting at delaying it.