Just when demographers are ringing [alarming / alarm] bells about overpopulation, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says we need to populate our [solar / sonar] system. Mr Bezos was asked for his thoughts [in / on] humanity living in [outer / inner] space in a thousand years' time. He replied: "I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living [in / on] the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any [taken / given] time 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins.…Space would be [full / filled] of life and intelligence and energy." He added that he wants to help "build [heavily / heavy] infrastructure that will be used by the space entrepreneurs of future generations…so [that / what] ingenuity and imagination can really be [leashed / unleashed] ".
Mr Bezos' thoughts are [etched / echoed] by [fellow / follow] multi-billionaire Elon Musk, owner of X ([formerly / firmly] known as Twitter). In 2021, he said of the human race: "We don't want to be one of [them / those] single-planet species; we want to be a multi-planet species." Earlier this year, Mr Musk warned that: "Population [collapse / clasp] due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming... [grade / mark] these words." Mr Bezos [concepts / conceives] of people living in giant space stations. He said most [inhabitants / habitats] of these would visit Earth for vacations. He envisions our planet returning to its pristine environment, [has / as] factories would be built in space. He said they would exploit resources on the moon or on asteroids instead of [abusing / using] up Earth's.
