Humans have never been particularly good at living sustainably, we've hunted large mammals to extinction since the invention of flint weapons. We need to develop our knowledge of how to live sustainably, and Mars could be an excellent laboratory for that.
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God, this actually is familiar, toxic thinking isn't it "I won't NEED to fix the drywall in this house when I get a NEW house" "I won't NEED to deal with the communication problems in my marriage when I get a NEW marriage"
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It's an impressive number of parallels you can line up but you seem to be using the most hard core, reality decoupled El*n M*sk fanbois as grounds to dismiss the concept of human space exploration wholesale.
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As someone who very much supports building a self-sustaining human presence on Mars - yeah, it's definitely worth noting that actually *terraforming* Mars is probably a thousand-year project, and not the same as settling Mars (more of a hundred-year project).
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This is what drives me *up the wall.* There is nothing we will do to Earth that will make it less hospitable than Mars. But if we can't fix Earth's problems, we're supposedly going to fix the situation by...going to Mars? Absolute fuckery.
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I'm not into the whole terraforming thing but the argument itself is not as crazy as you think. Earth's biosphere is orders of magnitude more complex than the surface and atmosphere of Mars. Playing with a simpler system can help understand the more complex ones.
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But that said, the problems of Earth's environment are not mainly about us not knowing what to do, but about us lacking the will to do what we know we should. At least for the first couple blocks down the road, then maybe the lack of knowledge kicks in by then.
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