On Earth Day, during the socalled pro-science marches, many unarmed liberal protestors carried signs whining that “There IS No Plan(et) B." They were apparently unaware of the fact that there are millions of earth-like planets just in the Milky Way Galaxy, not to mention those in the billions of other galaxies. One nearby star, Trappist-1, has seven earth-like planets in its orbit. That star is just 40 light-years away.
(Warning: this is satire, and it is a revision of a diary I posted a few years ago)
The human race may have only one economy--- but it has innumerable planets to choose from. When one planet becomes uninhabitable, the obvious solution is the so-called "Free Planet Project," inspired by New Hampshire's Free State Project.
This involves building a spaceship with a select group of liberty-minded job creators and nubile females, along with a few years supply of the bare essentials: Ayn Rand books, guns, ammo, medical marijuana, beer and survival food. Ideally, some of the nubile females would be anthropology and linguistics majors. Their job, in addition to bearing and raising the next generation of job creators, would be to translate the sacred texts of Ayn Rand, F.A. Hayek and Bill O’Reilly into the languages of any extraterrestials the colonists might encounter on their journey. Other nubile females would be tasked with preserving the ship’s video archive of historic Fox News broadcasts as well as designing and wearing brightly-colored minidresses for the colony’s cable news networks.
As the "generation ship" travels to the next planet, onboard computers could generate Bitcoin for use on that planet. It takes about a year for an inexpensive off-the-shelf computer to generate 1 BTC worth of the universal currency Bitcoin, which is the equivalent of US$1000.00. If the generation ship carries 1000 computers running for 10,000 years, once the colonists wake up from suspended animation, they would arrive with about $10 billion in seed capital to create jobs on the new planet. The newcomers would instantly have economic (and hence political) clout comparable to that of the Earth's Trump family.
If the planet turns put to be inhabited, the incumbent humanoids will doubtless welcome the newcomers with open arms (or tentacles as the case may be), because all humanoid beings yearn for freedom above all else. Inevitably, the incumbents will quickly all recognize that the newcomers are bringing them freedom, along with 10 million BTC worth (or US$10 billion) of the universal currency Bitcoin to invest in the local economy.
If the planet is uninhabited, the colonists can get right to work building a paradise with no taxes, no unions, and no government bureaucrats: a paradise where markets are perfectly free, where there are no regulations of any sort. and where job creators have nothing slowing down the process of creating jobs.
The only tricky part is choosing a planet which is warm enough. If the planet is a little too warm, it is possible to cool it down. If it's too cool, there is nothing you can do, thanks to the fact that there is no such thing as global warming.