Colonizing Space: Necessity or Greed?

Here’s the tough question: should we colonize space at all? Sci-fi paints two

futures—Star Trek’s utopian teamwork, or Starfield’s corporate greed and space cowboy chaos.

Reality might look more like the latter. Imagine a Martian mining town run by a megacorp where

workers breathe company-owned air, drink company-owned water, and never leave.

Congratulations, you’re in space capitalism on steroids. On the flip side, there’s survival

to think about. Earth is fragile. One asteroid, one supervolcano, or just us messing

up the climate, and we’re in trouble. Colonies could be humanity’s insurance policy—a backup

drive for civilization. Carl Sagan said, “All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.” Heavy