Reference here.
I have become a huge fan of Fraser Cain, his videos / podcasts, and his UniverseToday. Fraser is very smart, thoughtful, a near-vegan (refers to himself as a vegan), and an atheist.
He regularly makes a vastly underappreciated point: Mars is terrible. To quote him at the start of this interview about terriforming: "I've said many times: Mars is the worst."
There is literally nothing we could do that would make Earth as bad as Mars. Set off all nuclear weapons? Unleash an engineered pathogen? Create positive-feedback global warming? Earth will still be vastly better than Mars!
Seriously. You might think that Antarctica is inhospitable, and you're right. But it is unbelievably better than Mars! Antarctica: Lots of water right there! Breathable atmosphere! Ozone layer and protective magnetic field! Full atmospheric pressure!
With that said, I recommend listening to and/or reading Fraser and his team. Great stuff, and much more uplifting than the general news!
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| Even the coldest place on Earth is warmer than Mars, has water, is protected from radiation, has an atmosphere, has oxygen, etc, etc. etc. |
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