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True, well said. We are destroying our own planet, exploiting it to death and then planning to conquer Mars. These are all publicity stunts. Elon Musk is awesome but why try something crazy like this than making your own planet beautiful again. Need to look inwards than outwards to find solutions.

Its human nature to do this tho, sadly. Instead of fixing a problem or finding better alternatives we tend to just move on and start at a new spot. Evident by the amount of rubbish that builds up and the food that is wasted.
I feel Elon Musk is at the forefront of both waves though, yes SpaceX is about going to Mars one day but its doing so with re-usable rockets, and the Tesla and SolarCity projects are about clean renewable energies.

props. could not agree more. can't just abandon this and be like, ok we will try again.

It is a good idea to fix our planet with the money that are being used to explore other planets. But sadly people are heading in other direction.