Originally Posted by
bae
Can you point to some credible report that Bezos and Musk's motivation for going into space is primarily so that rich people can escape a polluted planet?
Personally, I think that it is essential for the long-term survival of our species that we get off this planet.
I never said "rich person," but Bezos' plan includes ensuring that we spare the earth from pollution by making space the place where all the industry will occur.
"But Bezos’s solution is to “spread out into the solar system” to mine the “limitless” resources in space. All heavy industry would move into space, where there would be asteroid mining, and Earth would be preserved as if it were exclusively zoned “residential and light industrial,” he said, laughing.
“Sometime in the next few hundred years,” he said, “there will be a big inversion where we will realize that we shouldn’t be doing heavy industry on Earth for two reasons: One, it’s very polluting; and two, we don’t have access to enough energy here do it. It just won’t be practical.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.60289fa4955b
Elon Musk's prediction of a future Armageddon is much less defined, that's true. It sounds like he believes annihilation can take many forms. https://aeon.co/essays/elon-musk-put...t-civilisation