[Kakaze]

If those in "power" wanted to relieve the pressure on this planet, we would be colonizing but it won't happen right now.

Those in power know the colonies would eventually gain power and Independence, they would rather we lived in our own filth than give up power over one individual.

[The Louiswu]

"If those in "power" wanted to relieve the pressure on this planet, we would be colonizing..."

Colonizing would do nothing to relieve the pressure on this planet. The average daily birthrate on planet Earth is about 357,000 persons PER DAY.

Even if we could move people to another planet at, say Star Trek ship speeds, we would need hundreds of ships, a place to put them and a way to supply them until they could become self-sustaining...it just ain't going to happen now or in the future.

[dangerdoc]

“If those in “power” wanted to relieve the pressure on this planet, we would be colonizing but it won’t happen right now.”

That is what war is for. China and India both have population problems that are holding them back, I expect them to rectify the problem in the next decade.

God help us.