When a place's resources were exhausted, one simply moved somewhere else and kept extracting. That was only natural.
And purely in theory, most of the problems and conflicts currently facing this world would be resolved once interstellar colonization began. In the long run, interstellar colonization also seemed to be an inevitable stage in the development of human civilization.
But! Earth was humanity's cradle, yet humanity could not remain in the cradle forever. This idea had been proposed countless years ago, but it had only ever been realized in movies, comics, and science fiction novels.
The only plan that had dared to set its sights on the stars and the sea and actually put it into practice was the Star Wars program during the Cold War. And the consequence of that plan was the direct or indirect collapse of a superpower capable of making the entire world tremble.
So what did you mean by suddenly proposing this plan now? Were you trying to overthrow the capitalist dictatorship of the United States?
Given the world's current technological level, interstellar colonization was completely impossible. Yes, the Bio-Dome plan your company had proposed earlier did indeed have great potential. Let's assume it really could transform the ecology of an alien planet into something suitable for human habitation. But how were you supposed to get it up there and build it?
There was indeed technology capable of sending people to the Moon, and even launching probes to the surface of Mars. But simply sending one or two people into space and having them construct complex engineering facilities on an alien world were fundamentally different concepts!
It was like how anyone could jump ten centimeters just by moving their legs, but try floating up there without coming back down! Building functional structures on a planetary surface