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If we’re not wiped out before technology can advance to that level I think eventually we will need to find a new home because the sun will eventually become a red giant and we'll have no choice, but in the mean time we should keep our population under control so we have enough recourses to live comfortably without straining the planet so much. Looking for a new place to live because earth becomes too crowded do to our lack of ability to have realistic planning for the future is not a good reason for colonizing new planets. The only acceptable reason would be to continue our existence as a species.

its true we have been like that all through out history and expanding into new territory isn't a endeavor that I'm implying should be damned. But I don't want it to come about because we cant maintain a stable population, were smart enough to know that their can be too many of us. We understand things to day unlike we could in the past. Over population can sew the seeds of our own destruction but we have the ability to prevent that because we have the ability to realize its become a problem..

But resources have their limits if we cant take that seriously on earth how would we ever respect that in space just keep multiplying and planet hopping? lets say we had the technology to go to other solar systems in a mater of days, and we also have the ability to mold the planets to habitats of our liking, what if there was something else living there before us, even if its only as complex as worms. Its possible that things more complex the us exist, would it be right for them to do that to us if they simply wanted more space. I want our species to become a space faring race simply so that we don't have to die with the earth, or for that mater our sun. As long as we still have questions to answer I want our race to be working to answer them. But at the same time I wish we would be more responsible and humble about our existence. I'm not saying that we shouldn't colonize space but if we treat the resources on our new homes like we did on earth than what does that say about humans.