Colonizing Space

Due to the growing climate problems, scientists have been looking into space colonization. Stephen Hawking predicted that human kind will become extinct within the next thousand years unless we find an alternative place to inhabit. Along with human kind surviving longer, the Solar System alone has, according to different estimates, enough material and energy to support anywhere from several thousand to over a billion times that of the current Earth-based human population. Colonizing other planets can also fix some of the climate issues we have on this planet. It will decrease the amount of pollution and the amount of resources being used. Colonizing new places has been known to displace indigenous peoples. If people were to colonize other planets, no one would be displaced because no one has been able to discover and other form of life within the solar system. In recent times, the overpopulation of the earth has been hurting the environment. People have been polluting the earth and overusing the natural resources. If the population were split between earth and another planet, there would be less stress on each environment. With the improvement of technology, space colonization could possible happen in the near future. As Stephen Hawking said that scientists have about 200 years to colonize and build residences on other planets or human kind will face long term extinction.