Worlds For Man - Part 3 - Earth

[jordan179]

Earth, as our homeworld, is already habitable. The problem is that our polluting activities are “de-terraforming” her, rendering her less habitable and destroying the biological riches that are our world’s evolutionary heritage. Our immediate task in managing the Earth’s future is to slow, stop, and eventually reverse this process of

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[jordan179]

I am certain that at least some of any new things humans build will be "tacky as hell." I doubt all of them will be, though, and after having them for a few decades to a century, we will develop all sorts of traditions surrounding the lifestyle :)

[jordan179]

First of all, we still transmit traditions in families. Secondly, immortality wouldn't mean that no new children would ever be born, simply that the birth rate would slow toward the rate of population decline (through emigration) and expansion of available habitat (through the construction of new Milespires and Deeps). Thirdly, culture can change even with a slower turnover in population, since humans can change throughout their lives.

[jordan179]

It's ok ... I'm so much in love with some of my future speculations that I do sometimes need to be reminded that bad taste is eternal :)

[jordan179]

Of course we will have tacky milespires, just as we have tacky everything from mansions down to one-room cottages. Why, however, would you believe that they will all be tacky? I'm using "milespire" as a term for a particular kind and scale of arcology, and saying "all milespires will be tacky" is roughly the same order of generalization as saying "all skyscrapers are tacky."