Evacuate Earth? Yes

I like either estimate, and Earth as a park/ anthropology experiment hits the mark Precisely!

From: sailor.barsoom
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:57 PM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: Evacuate Earth? Yes

--- In spacesettlers, Joe Strout wrote:

> On 6/14/12 6:31 AM, sailor.barsoom wrote:

>> I've played around with the idea of a future Earth with less
>> than a billion residents, most using clean green technologies
>> (like powersats). There would be a few million deliberate
>> primitives, and several million tourists would be here at any
>> given time. Most of the planet would be either wildlife
>> preserve or historical park.

> Sounds good to me. And might be achievable.

I like to think so. I was aiming at about four, maybe five hundred years from now.

>> The Solar System, OTOH, would have a population of forty
>> billion.

> Here I think you're aiming too low. Well, OK, I'll call it a
> good start; but ultimately I expect the population of the Sol
> system to number in the trillions.

No reason it couldn't. I assumed that with a universally high standard of living population growth would be slow, so that in a mere half-millennium even forty billion might be an overestimate. But eventually trillions? Sure, no reason why not.

> Best,
> - Joe

Best I Can Manage,
- Sailor Barsoom