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To me, it feels like a further step in advancing human civilization. Disperse the population a bit and keep growing as a species. That said, I'm no expert and if you have literature to recommend please do!

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

While it’s easy to agree with your priorities, taking resources away from our future will make next to no difference. Most of these issues are not budget issues and the space program is a miniscule budget comparatively.

For example most of these places where overuse of water is ruining ecosystems can’t really be helped with money. Maybe more intelligent allocation helps in some cases but we really need to face that some places can’t support the number of people there