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Overpopulation Satire

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Are you tired of overpopulation? Worried about global warming? Or just don’t like your neighbor? Well then I’ve got a proposal for you. These days all anyone seems to be talking about is what a terrible state the earth is in. There’s corrupt politicians, the barrier reefs are dying, there’s natural disasters, people are starving, some say that soon, even the rich will have trouble getting their gourmet steaks. The Earth just seems to be falling apart. One may ask what are we to do in the face of all of this awfulness. So I have come in this dire need, to offer my humble and expert opinion. Leave. Let’s leave this irrevocably, desolate, forlorn planet and colonize the ever expanding, exciting, mystery that is space. Space like the name entails has space. It has room for everyone to spread out. So, if well respected smart people, like Stephen Hawking and NASA are to be believed, then that solves the problem of overpopulation easy peasy. It is so hard to find a nice affordable place these days, especially in the big cities, but in the vacuum of space there’s no need to worry about high rent prices when you will have more pressing matters, such as finding the best way to terraform your new home for optimal living conditions.
Thomas Malthus predicts by 2050 the Earth’s population will begin to outgrow the food being produced, because while …show more content…

I have great confidence that spending all our money and limited resources on developing the technology to be able to survive the harshness of space will be immensely more beneficial, than wasting it on trying to fix Earth. Why spend money on a planet that is constantly being hit with natural disasters, for instance tsunamis and tornadoes, when technology could possibly be developed that will allow a person to transform a hostile planet not suitable for humans, to a nice place that will not have tornadoes and

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