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[Boerseun]

Colonising would be fine for its own sake. To relieve population pressure on Earth, it's a non-starter. We are currently experiencing a nett population growth of roughly 300,000 humans per day.

In other words, we'll have to lift a third of a million people into space every single day, and we'll only be maintaining the status quo!

I don't see any possible solution to this problem where space or space colonization would be involved. The only solution in exponential population growth would be education and wealth creation for the poor masses. Educated people with money in their pockets tend to have less babies. Empower women in the Third World to have a say as far as sex and family planning goes. The empowerment of women in the West through access to birth control pills have resulted in a huge drop in birthrates in the 60's.

Space would have to be colonised solely for its own sake.