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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2657734" data-attributes="member: 99">Given the terraforming technology we know them to have at the time they departed earth, I find it very difficult to imagine any environmental catastrophe that could not be dealt with on Earth.&nbsp; I find it far more likely that population pressures were getting to the point where overcrowding was reducing the quality of life below an acceptable level.I think of this as analagous to Larry Niven's &quot;Known Space&quot; series where those who stayed on Earth were limited in the number of children they could have unless they had incredibly good genes (like Carlos Wu) or unless they won the right in the Birthright Lotteries.&nbsp; The Earth government became somewhat oppressive and people spread to the rest of the solar system (mostly The Belt) and eventually to other planets where they could live life with less government control.This is precisely the attitude that the frontier planets of the Serenity 'verse seem to have.&nbsp; And we all know that a sparcely populated, less industrialized, locally governed society will attempt to buck the control of a heavily populated, more industrialized, centrally governed society.&nbsp; The North won in Firefly too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 2657734, member: 99"] Given the terraforming technology we know them to have at the time they departed earth, I find it very difficult to imagine any environmental catastrophe that could not be dealt with on Earth. I find it far more likely that population pressures were getting to the point where overcrowding was reducing the quality of life below an acceptable level. I think of this as analagous to Larry Niven's "Known Space" series where those who stayed on Earth were limited in the number of children they could have unless they had incredibly good genes (like Carlos Wu) or unless they won the right in the Birthright Lotteries. The Earth government became somewhat oppressive and people spread to the rest of the solar system (mostly The Belt) and eventually to other planets where they could live life with less government control. This is precisely the attitude that the frontier planets of the Serenity 'verse seem to have. And we all know that a sparcely populated, less industrialized, locally governed society will attempt to buck the control of a heavily populated, more industrialized, centrally governed society. The North won in Firefly too. ;) [/QUOTE]

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