Deutsch's Principle of Optimism

The world can support an unlimited number of people because there is an unlimited amount of resources in your universe. The limitless hydrogen gas between stars and galaxies can be used to transform the cosmos around you into a habitable region of space, as large as you like. That can be transformed into cures for all your diseases and make you a body that lasts forever. No physical law stands in the way of your infinite future. If only we had convinced our own politically powerful malthusians, those who argued resources were finite - they implied human beings were themselves an evil of a kind. We did not stand up strongly enough against them. And because of our failure, you find yourself now searching these video archives