Is it believable having a space industry constantly exporting resources from Earth to space colonies eventually leading to a conflict between the two?

This is for a video game project.

In a future where living in the Earth's surface has become undesirable. People are building colonies in Earth's orbit.

If materials from Earth are used to build space ships or space colonies, aren't we killing Earth?

Those materials stay in space, they never return to Earth. This may be alleviated by some kind of return policy. But even in that case, the amount of returned materials will be less than the original amount that left Earth, because it's impossible to return the same amount.

If I use this to justify a conflict between Earth and the colonies, is this believable?

How many time needs to happen for this to be of concern to the people on Earth. I say 200 or 300 years, but its a completely arbitrary number. Any trick to calculate the time will be appreciated.

posted over 9 years ago

Hatoru Hansou‭

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