(December 6, 2014 at 8:32 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I would think that overpopulation would be a huge motivator to find more space. (Though we still have a large number of problems to solve, not the least of which is actually getting there. Then there's the fact that we don't have anywhere to go *to* yet.)
Overpopulation hasn't caused any incentive whatsoever for people to move to Antarctica so I doubt it will be any kind of impetus for us to settle Mars. The population of the earth is going to level out and then decline steeply.
