John Maxson wrote:

I too have never had a great deal of hope that our solar system
would be of much help to us for population expansion. That
does not mean I'm without hope for moving beyond it.

As others have correctly pointed out, we have little reason to be concerned
that we need space to solve any "overpopulation problem". But just to set the
record straight, Gerard O'Neill established that with space habitat technology,
there are sufficient resources in our system to support a population many
thousands of times that of Earth. And all without moving beyond the solar
system.

The solar system only seems inadequate if we confine our thinking to the
surfaces of planets and moons.

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Regards,
Mike Combs
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the
best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the
Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.
Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is
"somewhere else entirely."

Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"