[ExI] Zuckerberg just bought 26 days of world peace?

[Tara Maya]

As long as the planet didn’t belong to “everyone” or to “no one” (creating a tragedy of the commons), we would find ways to renew the resources we used. We might not need it for mining at all, as mining might be done in space; farming seems a much more likely use of a planet. Factories would be off-world, so pollution could be avoided. And human cities would be off-world, leaving only tourists and pilgrims to enjoy large wilderness preserves interspersed with the farms. Hence, rural, even wild, would describe the condition of such a planet.

Why, yes. I am an optimist. 

Tara Maya
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> On Dec 7, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Ben <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com> wrote:
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> "It's interesting to imagine a future (fairly far out) where planets become the rural resource providers to the urban space station cities"
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> I can agree that planets could well provide a lot of our resources in the longer-term future, but 'rural' is hardly the word I'd use to describe planetary-scale strip-mines. And in any case, they'd only last so long until you'd devoured them right down to, and including, the core.
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> Ben Zaiboc
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