HRogge Wrote:There is of course the point that there is NO PLACE in the solar system (beyond Earth) at the moment where a million people could go... so "emigration" is not only a problem of transportation, but also of life-support at the end of the journey.
I would expect that most Daneverse countries would look more for "already habitable" planets than to build huge orbitals to put people into. Still, with a habitable planet in another star system one country might think "lets grab it"... and sent at least ten thousands people there. Still, getting that many people on a different star is a huge effort, even for a rich nation state.
Well, yeah. no place currently in existence, hence why the NLR is planning on doming over Plaskett Crater and turning it into a singular dome for the economy of scale, and why they have a long-term goal of fully enclosing Eris. Most of that population growth is intended to be not from the major first/second world countries, but picking up from the real crap-holes of the world, sub-saharan africa, the boat peoples of Australia, the Indonesian island arcs, mexico, etc, with the intent of picking up a labor force to really help build up an economy of scale in their production facilities and for just general 'these people have horrible, messed up lives. We can't ignore their plights, so let's give them a job and a nice place to live and get some help from them in return'.