Tom Ritchford
Aug 6, 2021

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Astronomical threats are separated by tens of millions of years.

Geological threats by millions of years.

It would take hundreds of years and quadrillions of dollars to set up self-sustaining colonies off the Earth.

But we will destroy our environment in a few generations.

Your argument is like a man in a burning house with his family who won't leave because he's worried about his great-grandchildren's retirement fund.

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