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by Earw0rm 904 days ago
None. At our current efficiency levels, 1T of us would destroy our home planet's ability to support ourselves in a week.

If we want to go multiplanetary and support populations of that kind of size, we have to get much better at optimising our footprint. Which probably requires ethical/philosophical innovation as well as hard science/technology. What we have now is too wasteful and inefficient to scale up in that way, indeed so much so that it risks poisoning itself before it's able to develop those capabilities.