Spaceflight will alow us to spread the seed of life to a largely lifeless cosmos.

Stine once looked at our use of resources not as a "waste" but like a baby. A baby expands, uses up resources--excretes a lot of waste. This does not make the baby a bad thing--it merely needs to be born into a larger environment. In our case--it will be space.

A Blue Whale also eats a lot. But it wouldn't be a wonderous blue whale if it didn't.