Frankly, all the SF stories that posit the rich and mighty living in space while the impoverished struggle along on a despoiled Earth always make me laugh. Nope nope nope. Earth, no matter how poisoned it gets, will always be a more loving, more sustaining home than a tin can floating in the crushing vacuum of space, and also most likely more sustaining than life on a planet whose environment, without monumental interference, would kill you. (That's something The Expanse [only ever saw the tv series; didn't read the books] got right.) So yeah! You go for it, billionaire assholes!
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Frankly, all the SF stories that posit the rich and mighty living in space while the impoverished struggle along on a despoiled Earth always make me laugh. Nope nope nope. Earth, no matter how poisoned it gets, will always be a more loving, more sustaining home than a tin can floating in the crushing vacuum of space, and also most likely more sustaining than life on a planet whose environment, without monumental interference, would kill you. (That's something The Expanse [only ever saw the tv series; didn't read the books] got right.) So yeah! You go for it, billionaire assholes!