I wouldn’t have any problem with a completely dead planet being colonized by humanity but I absolutely do not trust humanity as a whole when it comes to a planet with life on it we don’t even respect our own species much less other ones history has shown this over and over again.
even if it is an inevitability doesn’t mean that it is positive just because it was inevitable that nuclear weapons got invented doesn’t mean that It’s a good idea for us to have that technology I would rather nukes not exist.
Tutanota and proton. Unfortunately though the owner of proton has come out in support of trump. Tutanota only let’s you make one email per person for free though. I figured proton is still better than google and there are not many free private alternatives.
For my password manager I use keepass which runs locally on your device and syncthing to keep the passwords file synced between devices the more things you are able to keep local the better. Syncthing is also excellent it even works when you are away from your local network as long as both devices are running it and online and it has no central servers. (If one device is offline it will just wait until it is online to sync)
With VPNs you are shifting the trust from your ISP to another company the owner of the VPN is still able to track you. I don’t really have a VPN that I use right now I just use Tor when I want to be private.