Worlds For Man - Part 3 - Earth
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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I don't see the point of this unless you mean to replace them with newer nuclear reactors ... there are plenty of unmined fissionables in the existing mines, let alone in potential new ones. The goal is to increase the percentage of national power derived from nuclear reactors. And in the long run, we will also have access to extraterrestrial fissionables if we want them, and be able to use deuterium and tritium or tri-helium as fusion fuels.
I'm not necessarily talking about external disasters here. Internal disasters, caused by either spies from other Milespires (I tend to see them as countries) or social discontent from putting so many people relatively close together.
If society has fissioned into thousands and thousands of warring small city-states, that would be a very bad thing regardless of the form of architecture employed by these states! Crowding is in relation to available land area: the milespire form multiplies available land area tremendously. You may not have noticed it, but in all but the "spartan" sample milespire, the effective living quarters of each individual were mansion-sized. The "spartan" milespire, containing 1 million people, crowded them no more than is common in current cities.
And if they want fresh air, all they need to do is take the express elevator to the ground floor and go for a walk in the woods ... which are more accessible to them than is the case in current cities. Furthermore, they have advanced equivalents of the internet, aircars and the subway tubes if they want variety other than of their local woods.
So no, I don't see going stir-crazy from being cooped up in a "little" apartment as being a big problem.
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