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Um, yeah. Think you've misunderstood.

So do the US and Zimbabwe.

The issue is only partly economic, it's also cultural. Europe's countries are far more culturally varied than US states; different opinions, different priorities, different norms. Crimea, Basque, Scot, Northern Ireland... The economies are also sufficiently varied that one ring to rule them all is absurd, resulting in tensions between the historical cultural groups, aka countries. The UK is increasingly interesting on this matter.

It's a sunny country with a tendency to be outdoors, a lot of space, limited public transport, and a colonial history (another conversation). If you're from a cold ex-soviet country then there is no comparison - Australia far better.

Did the words "tomorrow", "next week", "next year" not suit your argument? It's wilderness from the centre of the Earth all the way out - myriad accidents waiting to happen.

"I don't really think that worrying about the Earth dying anytime soon is much of problem"

You've not based that on anything. It's also ignoring the word "ensure", the longer we sit idly by, the less sure we can be.

"If we can't in a million years develop technology to survive we won't be able to do it in the next 50 years."

Obviously, but what's a million years got to do with anything?