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>>We can make all of the Earth rather like the best parts of New York, or Paris or Sydney: picturesque, clean and comfortable. We can then set about to make the rest of the solar system rather like the Earth.

If we make even 10% of the entire earth's surface at that density, it will be an environmental catastrophe that would likely collapse the food web.

Over half the world's population lives on less than 1% of the land [0]. Only 14% of the land has been modified in any way.

Long before we turn the whole thing into a cityscape, the natural world on which we depend, from the soil biology, to the pollinators, to the apex predators, will all collapse.

Sure the author has a point about the transformative ability of knowledge, but he's also basically an idiot about system dynamics.

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3389041/Wher... [1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/human-impact-earth-pl...