>>13387292>will humans ever colonize space for good? It`s already on the horizon. We are witnessing a new space race between US, China and Third Powers as now the satellite technologies are crucial for mainting their systems. Space has become of political interest and once the first burden is achieved the economic spheres will industralize space as well. The moon has H3 and the asteroids have the materials necessary for construction and enough rare metals to finance new systems. Also new energy concepts like power satellites and fusion reactors would accelerate the race. But economic and political will alone is not sufficient, there also needs to exist a cultural impetus. China got it, the US still maintains the curiosity and living in space could allow one break away from the controlled system of earth. Additionally I think that human augmentation technologies would also need an outlet for younger generations that, while genetically engineered to be smarter, healthier and fitter than baselines, would need decades to wait up until they can join the ranks of the never-dying elderly as rejuvination technologies will change the way we lived since the beginning of civilization.
Earth has experienced far worse climate changes, even humanity experienced catastrophes grander than our climate change. The Toba volcano explosion, the dying of the sahara forest and earth experienced ages in which the average temperature was 15 to 20 degrees higher than today and around this maximum dinosaurs lived. No, climate change is not a existential threat for humanity, it is not a apocalypse, but at worst a decline of the average quality of human life, some might even take advantage of the cliamte change. Russia for example could profit from it, but for most the change of the habilitation change will be a disaster and followed by famines.
