If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled. 
If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled.
You don't understand, what's the point of continuing as a species if we aren't expanding nonstop? Are we just going to let the sun continue to radiate more energy per second than humanity has ever used in total? That's energy we could theoretically use to do something at some point!