Do you think less people make progress faster? What's your target level of depriving life of existence? How do you plan to keep mankind robust from extinction events on a single planet? You might just need more people. What do you think our technology would look like if we had 10x less people for the last 100 years?
More people make more progress faster. Aren’t you glad your parents didn't decide the world would be prettier or work better without you in it? If great minds like Einstein, Bell, Tesla, Da Vinci etc., were still alive and productive today, the world would be a better place. You're literally asking for others to die out of your fear. The burden should be higher. Have courage.
We know it makes more sense to use materials from outside than having to drag them out of Earth's gravity well; I don't see why wouldn't that apply to humans as well. Let's have kids there when we get colonies going, it'll be a new and wonderful experience; there's no need to rush.
> You're literally asking for others to die out of your fear.
On the contrary, you're the one playing up fears like extinction events. People are not having kids because they don't want to, not because point78 asked them to.
More people make more progress faster. Aren’t you glad your parents didn't decide the world would be prettier or work better without you in it? If great minds like Einstein, Bell, Tesla, Da Vinci etc., were still alive and productive today, the world would be a better place. You're literally asking for others to die out of your fear. The burden should be higher. Have courage.