Jeff Bezos argues that going into space is a crucial next step for humanity’s continued survival, and much of that survival is reliant on resources. At the 2016 Pathfinder Awards at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, Bezos noted that “If you take baseline energy usage on Earth and compound it at just 3 percent per year for less than 500 years, you have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells. That’s just not going to happen.”
