I don't see a likely future where space colonization as fleeing a ruined earth, but one pan-solar civilization _includes_ a vital and flourishing earth.
Briefly: we can use the resources of the solar system to make life here better. Trading with Earth will make life possible and profitable Out There.
Which, I know, is so-very 70s High Fronter of me. But, man, wealth makes anything possible and there is a whole lot of wealth in the solar system, just waiting to be properly utilized.
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Date: 2009-11-16 03:04 am (UTC)Briefly: we can use the resources of the solar system to make life here better. Trading with Earth will make life possible and profitable Out There.
Which, I know, is so-very 70s High Fronter of me. But, man, wealth makes anything possible and there is a whole lot of wealth in the solar system, just waiting to be properly utilized.