In article ,
Hop David wrote:
In fact, to my mind the biggest weakness of terraforming is simply that it
takes too long... Never mind the
details of holding together the project's own organization; more important
is whether it will still have *customers* at the end.

Endeavors requiring efforts longer than an election term are vulnerable.

That comes under the "holding together the project's own organization"
heading, to my mind. Yes, it's significant, but there are conceivable
solutions. The problem of whether there will still be customers at the
end of it all is more fundamental.
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