> > ruthless efforts to rape and despoil, virgin wilderness planets. >
as an ex-eco-guy, it can be hard to think of this, but the ecological isssue with spaceflight is that it burns incredible fuel, which is generally taken in ways that destroy wide swaths of wilderness and even the people living in it. like cryptocurrency, this can be changed by changing how fast people ascend, and in what way the resources are extracted. it can seem hard to change a good cash cow.
