[Spaceships] Million Merchant Marathon

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Originally Posted by Anthony

Even so, such plans generally either never go anywhere, or only go far enough to have someone work out the cost.

If the terraforming plan cost ten times as much as cleaning up the Earth, I could see it happening.
If it cost 100x as much, it's definitely pushing the limits of plausible but maybe still.
If it costs 1,000,000x as much... I really can't believe it. And that's probably still lowballing the cost of the terraforming project.

It's more like a real world problem when dealing with developing nations is getting them to avoid the mistake the West made developing. Sure, cutting down all the tress for farms is what the West did, but we now KNOW it causes all sorts of long term problems. Same thing for car dependent infrastructure or using coal/oil to power your country, but getting developing nations to listen is basically impossible.

That's what's happened in my setting. And no, the West using it's militaries to force the issue is not a workable solution.