This seems so science-fictiony that most people won't take it seriously. That would be a bad mistake.
Not only are we messing up the planet, we're also inadvertently shutting our door to space. When we're shut in, we're probably shut in for ever.
And when I say "we" are shutting that door, I mean mainly Musk.
https://robertvanwey.substack.com/p/the-imminence-of-the-destruction
@gleick Musk's satellites have already pretty much ruined terrestrial astronomy, and when the others start launching their "constellations" (!) we may arrive at the Kessler scenario a lot sooner than previous worst estimates. So some of the competitors are likely to be stopped before they get any serious numbers into LEO.
All of these projects are a land grabs (space grabs?) -- and no one in the U.S. government seems to have a clue about why it is a terrible idea to give it all to Musk.
James Gleick
Dan Gillmor
Karl Auerbach