Because that's whethe people a(was : A simple question)

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> Getting to them on Earth is NOT though getting easier [...] but more difficult

Then why aren't the prices rising?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager

> and more environmentally destructive [with] waste and destruction from smelting and purifying

Then why are pollution levels falling?:
http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource

> why produce goods and materials on Earth

...Because that's where the people are.

> that needs to be used in space?

Do they? Has that already been established?

> off world [is] where they're needed to build.

What if that weren't true?

> The primary reason to do it is freedom to live as you will in a group of like thinking people

OK.