The Ultimate Resource is people (was Evacuate Earth?)

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "hitssquad" wrote:
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> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> > Well then, if thats really what you consider the Ultimate Resource
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> ...Not just me:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ajuliansimon.com%2Fwritings%2FUltimate_Resource%20%22the%20ultimate%20resource%20is%22
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> "Conclusion [...] Dec 23, 1993 The ultimate resource is people - skilled, spirited, and hopeful people who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit, and ..."

Not just you but a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.

> > then you should certainly be working hard to promote space settlement
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> By lying to people by spinning a tale about a supposed imminent depletion of resources on Earth? ...Or by telling them the truth -- that resources are not a reason to colonize beyond Earth, but that there might be other reasons for such colonization?

The world's scientists, governments, and environmentalists vs. Cato and the business interests who stand to lose if we address the pollution that they produce which is harming us and our planet?

The known fact that catastrophic events have occurred on Earth leading to mass extinctions vs. the 'faith' that humans as a resource are so powerful as to be exempt from that threat?
Brooks