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Originally Posted by Human No More

Nobody honestly has a practical proposal for moving humanity, only to reduce load on a single area while avoiding an 'eggs in one basket' situation as far as a planet/system goes. The only alternative would be to drastically reduce Earth's population, by 2-3 billion - an engineered dieback by lowering birth rate is obviously possible, but remains unlikely as to be implausible for now without unprecedented advances in global provision of education and healthcare.

Remember though that lowering the population would not only likely have ethical issues, but it would also significantly damage the economy, at least for a decade or two. Which, by itself, would also slow our ability to go out into space.

Of course, if nobody cares about ethics or the economy, we can always just have another war. Which also runs the chance of significantly damaging the planet.