You are right in the sense that humans will perish if we don't push into the next frontier. The world will not just be third world-type, but without space colonization it will be a world full of pollution, green house gases, and over-population. The semi-communist state of China will soon be in space as well. In 2010 they are planning to go to the Moon. If they land there, lets see the American capitalist sell plots then.


