"International terrorism is a challenge of our lifetimes. Finding clean, sustainable means of dealing with our need for energy is the challenge of our lifetimes. Solving it won't prevent anything else from being an issue. But ignoring it will assure that everything else is doomed to fall.
"This problem won't be solved in the space of a single political season, and solutions won't show immediate results. They'll demand two things that have been utterly lacking from this administration, and all too rare in every administration: a willingness to place the long-term good of the nation above the short term gains of the powerful, and the political courage to both make and demand real and lasting sacrifice from the American people."
-- "Devilstower" on Daily Kos,
2007-01-23
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Even the energy demands pale in comparison. OTOH, energy, etc. can possibly be dealt with in a generation of two. Population will not only take a long time, it is a Permanent challenge. Even cheap, regular FTL flight almost certainly won't allow exporting substantial amounts of Earth-folks anytime in the next century or more, so a realistic, Local fix is needed.