Honestly at this point we may as well go for it, it’s obvious that colonizing space is something humanity will fuck up really badly in our current state, enforcing a few thousand years to get our shit together first seems like it could be a good idea.
If we were to destroy everything orbiting earth today, we would probably be out of the Kessler Syndrome it would cause in about a decade. This doesn’t really negate your point - I’m more inclined by the week to believe we are in the midst of a civilizational collapse that will halt our advancement for a millennium or two.
Honestly at this point we may as well go for it, it’s obvious that colonizing space is something humanity will fuck up really badly in our current state, enforcing a few thousand years to get our shit together first seems like it could be a good idea.
If we were to destroy everything orbiting earth today, we would probably be out of the Kessler Syndrome it would cause in about a decade. This doesn’t really negate your point - I’m more inclined by the week to believe we are in the midst of a civilizational collapse that will halt our advancement for a millennium or two.
Not if you include sats in GEO. While LEO is self-cleaning in the timespan of a few years, stuff in GEO will stay there for millennia.
There isn’t enough there to cause Kessler Syndrome.