Is it about perceived ethics and population? It would be too difficult to stand by on the same planet thriving while the rest can see it up close? Safety, security etc.?
Is it as simple as planetary colonization being about exploration and very long term advancement more than the disaster escape scenario in my mind?
Or, am I completely missing something else?
EDIT to clarify that I’m not suggesting any artificial habitat that would be lived in now or in the near future, but in the bigger picture of humans needing to adapt to the changing world.
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The same reason you probably don’t walk around in a space suit.
It would be really expensive and offer basically zero benefits, while offering a ton of negatives.
You would make absolutely everything harder and more complex then it needs to be for no reason whatsoever.
Maybe at some point in the future the Earth will be inhospitable and require we do this, but that’s not the case right now and we have no reason to believe it ever will be at this point.
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