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Doubling the earths population every few decades has an impact on the quality of life??
Doubling : Roughly 40 - 50 years. (based on past trends - though this may change)
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For long term resolution of the causes for war (unmet necessities) and cope with the geometric expansion of the human race, the obvious answer is to look outward, into outer space. Outside of the deep gravity well of our home planet, there is expansion space, unending power, and immense resources. Space colonization is the answer to generate world peace, as world peace is the answer to generate space colonization. For mankind needs to divert its surplus resources from eternal predation to cooperation in the leap into space. By building immense orbiting colonies, capable of holding millions of lifeforms, humanity can invalidate the limitations of a finite planet and finite resources. Even with geometric population expansion, humanity would not exhaust the resources of the solar system for several thousands of years.
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"Why build space settlements? Why do weeds grow through cracks in sidewalks? Why did life crawl out of the oceans and colonize land? Because living things want to grow and expand. We have the ability to live in space (see the bibliography), therefore we will -- but not this fiscal year
"The key advantage of space settlements is the ability to build new land, rather than take it from someone else. This allows a huge expansion of humanity without war or destruction of Earth's biosphere. The asteroids alone provide enough material to make new orbital land *hundreds of times greater than the surface of the Earth, divided into millions of colonies. This land can easily support trillions of people."
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