If we can't live sustainably on earth with abundant resources & habitable climate, we won't survive the harsh environments & limited resources of Mars. My guess is spending the moonshot effort on accomplishing former here is the more direct path to doing the latter there.
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"I think my job as a New York lawyer is making me unhappy You know what would make me happy? Moving into the Arizona desert and trying to start some kind of self-sustaining commune" Like the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend pilot squared
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Seriously though You can't fix ocean acidification or desertification or climate change HERE and you want to "terraform" MARS? "Look, I know that sink's been dripping for 20 years and I've never gotten around to fixing it but it'll be moot when I build a new house"
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The problem in this debate is still the conflating of any kind of human presence on Mars with the El*n M*sk fever dream of a hi-tech, anarcho-capitalist Galt's Gulch utopia in Space.
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