Reddit mentions of Should We Colonize Other Planets? (New Human Frontiers)

While your statement is broadly true, the article OP linked doesn't fall into the lobbying category. The author is a retired philosopher who has a different view of how space colonization should be carried out.

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Here is the author's 140-page book on the topic:

> Humans live relatively short lives and, to survive, require large amounts of food and water, very specific climatic conditions and an oxygen-rich atmosphere. We can create colonists that have none of these shortcomings.

> Morton argues that we should treat the end of the human race in the same way that we treat our own deaths: as something sad but ultimately inevitable. The earth will perish one day, and, in the end, we should be concerned more with securing the future of intelligent beings than with the preservation of our species