Science!

The whole terraform Mars idea is so baffling to me. We currently live on a planet that is absolutely perfect for life. Life can't help but naturally thrive here under all kinds of conditions. So what's the obsession with a desolate wasteland like Mars? It seems like all the time and money on this, in my opinion, foolish project to terraform Mars could be spent on improving quality of life on Earth. I mean we can't even deal with our own global climate crisis as it is. Like we're gonna create an artificial self-sustaining atmosphere and climate on a planet 40 million miles away?

I feel like too often in science and tech the question asked is "can we do it" and not "should we do it".

That's fair, and we certainly should be making efforts at solving earth's pollution problems. However, we also have to acknowledge the very real future that humanity is going to become too numerous for planet earth.

We're going to need places to colonize. Mars is the most viable option currently, so the question of terraforming has to be addressed since currently it couldn't sustain life. The other nearest option is Venus, but we'll need to figure out actually how to correct global warming, and on a much larger scale along with being able to remove green house gasses to be able to make Venus viable.