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Speaking for humanity, Bezos claims that we don’t want to live in a “retrograde world” where we’d have to freeze population growth.  Elon Musk says colonization on other planets is a necessity to ensure that the human race survives.  Richard Branson is again exploiting astronomical business opportunities with commercial space travel.  According to Stephen Hawking, “with climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious”.  Leaving Earth and sending the species off to colonize other planets will only exacerbate world problems and leave lots of people behind to face whichever disaster comes first

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