But that wouldn’t generate as much profit, see! You gotta have Scarcity, otherwise ya cannot jack up the prices so high!

also: permaculture regenerative agriculture ecological stability dynamic equilibrium etc

also, news: India’s regenerative water permaculture development

The pitfalls of our current systems preclude us getting to the point of utilizing space to any meaningful extent. Better to forgo the hypothetical Star Trek romanticized fiction and just fix what we have here; then maybe we can think about that stuff.

At this stage, the mere mention of any such possibility is a distraction from the gravity of the situations we face. It’s a mere tool to keep the apple cart going, while people are literally dying from our own collective hubris.

Vertical farms might be the future.

WDYM “might”, it’s already happening, just slowly. Not every modern city has lots of skyscrapers.

Plus there’s the potential of mining and colonisation of space.

Very limited. Though I like the idea of toroid stations with mirrors in L points, like Stanford torus, which is IIRC not considered cool now due to being expensive and complex to build.

Maybe not toroid, but asymmetric rotating pendulum-like thing, with another end being ballast. For gravity.

Anyway, you don’t realize how much less efficiency existing on Earth requires. It’s really easier to fix our shit here before going into space. Space is so cool that it’s worth the effort, but real colonization doesn’t make sense economically yet.

Only socialism and communism try to ensure everyone survives.

Except for the “enemies of the people” and the “bourgeoisie”, right?..