The planet on which the inhabitants have re-worked the entire surface in "a massive engineering enterprise."

From Carl Sagan's Cosmos (1980).

Will Earth or another local world ever look like this? If not, and Brave New World gets more ingrained in Western society, what is the alternative?

To consume awhile and then to go extinct like 99.9% of species that have ever inhabited the place that to us is the closest place to paradise in the vast universe of our understanding.

Or, with  your help, promotion of space development can be done, and people can more easily come to experience the realization, individually, that we are part of...