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Nah. 5 billion years from now we'll have the technology to move the Earth to a survivable orbit.

Not in my backyard. I paid a lot of money to live on this gated community planet, and I'm not letting those dirty Earthlings anywhere near here.

Better to just suck out the heavy elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting

or we'll be so far away from earth we won't care.

or we'll have failed to make it through the great filter and all be long extinct.

We have the technology, just not the logistics.

Orbit around... what, exactly?

The sun, just, from further away

Or modify the sun.

Oh please, we're just getting past this shared mutable thing.

The carbon cycle will end in only 600 million years due to the increasing brightness of the sun if you want a closer end date for life as we know it on earth

The oceans will already start to evaporate in a billion years.