Seeing as we're running out of living space, how long will it be until another habitable planet is found?

Question

I thought i'd ask this being that our once lovely little world is contaminated with war, pestilence, chaotic weather, incurable disease, hunger...ad infinitum

Answer 1

all of that is the fault of humans...were like an incurable disease ourselves. And any other planet that is habitable probably has something living in it already and if they were smart they would kick us out.  

Answer 2

so we can ruin that one too?

Answer 3

Actually there is absolutely no current shortage of living space.  Very little of earth is actually inhabited.  Just the good parts with good soil, access to fresh water, and accessible by roads.  

There are no inhabitable planets in our solar system.  Interstellar travel is impossible, so there can be no colonization of other star systems.  

We are creating our own mass extinction event with our CO2 emissions. Animal species are going extinct in record numbers. With our rising population disease and hunger are bad and will get worse. Its only a matter of time before there is another 1918 style flu epidemic that will kill tens of millions.   But there is no place to hide.

Sorry.  

Answer 4

The Earth and all of its inhabitants will die in the next couple of billion years anyway so whats the rush.

I do not think anybody will know if a planet is habitable till they get there, and since it will take several hundred thousand years to travel there I do not think that another habitable planet will ever be found outside of our solar system.

Finding Planets is one thing, finding habitable planets and building a giant Noahs Ark to take us all over there is quite another.

The best thing to do would be to get rid of War, pestilence, chaotic weather (especially in UK since it always has been), incurable disease, hunger etc and reduce poulation growth.

Mankind is much more likely to be killed by natural catastrophies like a large meteorite, supernova explosions, and the like well before the Suns increasing radiated temperature frys us all and starts to swell into a red giant.

Answer 5

We are not running out of living space.  35% of the continental USA is still wilderness, the same could be said for much of western Asia.  Almost everyone on Earth could live in say Texas, Nebraska and Kansas while the rest of the world was farmed, the suitable pieces anyway.