Astronomer royal calls for 'Plan B' to prevent runaway climate change

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42. It's not science fiction...

Only your interpretation of the word "terraforming" makes it so.

There isn't a need to ship billions of people anywhere.

The problem with population isn't the population itself it's the needs of that population. Instead of thinking of terraforming with the goal of making a planet habitable for billions, think about it terms of making a planet habitable for enough people to help provide for those needs.

Terraforming doesn't need to immediately result in being suitable for human life to be called terraforming. It's much easier to make it suitable for plant life or even microbial life.

And sure we don't use but a fraction of the available solar energy that hits this planet every day but even if we did that's but an even smaller fraction of what's available outside this atmosphere.

How would you feel about all the factories and power plants being shipped off of this planet? Wouldn't that make your goal of "Clean Up" a little easier to manage?