[amirnathoo]

"how do we reconcile our innate capacity to continuously expand with a finite world?"

How about colonizing space? Seriously. Do you think it will never happen?

[nazgulnarsil]

how does colonizing help relieve population pressure?

you send out 10,000 colonists to start a new planet. great, that's a blip in terms of population growth.

send out 100 ships, that's just 1 million people.