Why wait for the rest of the world to fix its problems?

I've no idea what you're talking about. What do you mean, "wait"?


The World's problems are one of the motivations for travelling in space in the
first place, that is to get away from them. If we solve all the world's
problems we have no reason to leave Earth! Lets take a few examples:

Overcrowding: If we solve this problem, we have no reason to move into space in
seach of new territories.

Energy: If we solve this problem there is no reason to build SPSs or the space
colonies to support them, because we will have already solved this problem.
(The assumption being that we have waited for all the world's problems to be
solved, energy is one of them.)

War: The is no motivation to migrate into space to escape war if this problem
has been solved.

Space travel can be part of the solution to the problems, but if we wait until
all the world's problems are solved before going into space well...

Tom