Gohmert: ‘Scary’ that liberal elites would use vaccines for ‘culling the population’ of humans

[Xithras]

93. Space exploration can never really be a viable solution to our current overpopulation problems.

In order to check our population growth rates, we would need to launch 80.5 million people per year into space. That launched population, when it reaches its new home, will continue to breed as well. With 80.5 million people breeding, and an additional 80.5 million people a year arriving...and THEM all breeding too...how long will that new homeworld take to fill?

At best, it's buying time. In less than a century, that planet would be full as well. And now you will have TWO planets, with 8 billion people each, needing to export 80+ million people a year just to stay stable. So where will that 160 million people go?

The real problem comes a century or two later, when all of the "nearby" colonizable planets are full. Colonists can't spend centuries travelling to a new planet because of the limits of human lifespans. Relatively quickly, they'll end up with a situation where all of the "nearby" planets are already colonized, but the Earth will STILL need to export about 80 million people a year just to stay stable.

Crash.

When people cite space exploration as a solution to overpopulation, they're basically saying "Let's find a way to stall the problem until I die, so somebody else can worry about it." Given the realities of mathematics and physics, there is no way that we can export tens of millions of people per year on an infinite basis just to stabilize our own population. At best, it's buying time for everyone. At worst, it's just offering the wealthier peoples a way to escape the planet to somewhere "pristine" while the poorer masses slowly perish on a dying planet.