Terraforming the Solar System

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

New England was not an unreasonable venture. It wasn't the best real estate, but it had its attractions. More importantly, it was habitable.

So was England. From most POV, it would have been far more cost efficient and reasonable to just accomodate themselves to the social and religious conditions at home (which was, in fact, what most of their coreligionists did). Settling New England was not a reasonable thing to do, from a large-scale POV. It would be far more reasonable to improve and change England than for the English to settle New England.

Yet it was done, not by the English, but by a small subgroup of them with their own motives.

Other planets are not habitable. You see many colonists on salt flats or at the South Pole? Both those environments are much easier to get to and actually much less hostile than other planets in the Solar System, and that's with current or plausible near future technology.

Right now, you wouldn't see mass colonization of Mars or Venus from the West even if they were completely Earth-like. The past was different (at times), so probably will the future be (at times).