It's not about what's better for me. It's about avoiding global extinction events and not keeping all our eggs in one basket. it's also about sacrifice in order to push the envelope and to rekindle The drive for exploration and discovery. it's about escaping before it is made impossible by people in this thread arguing that we should be punished for even trying.
> It's about avoiding global extinction events and not keeping all our eggs in one basket.
That's what I meant when I said "I'm all for space exploration".
> it's also about sacrifice in order to push the envelope and to rekindle The drive for exploration and discovery which made Western civilization great.
That "I'm all for space exploration" also covers this point as well. I'm not against space exploration and habitation. What I'm saying is we should definitely pay more attention to this planet because it is still possible to save this planet. Mars has so many obstacles that as one other comment said, Antarctic is more habitable than Mars. What I'm against is people who say "I'm off to Mars the first time tickets get available" to avoid current Earth problems (may it be their personal lives or the whole system). Expecting different things in context of these problems is just naive at best as these are human thinking problems which cannot be solved with reaching different planet i.e moving the goalpost.
Your first comment came off like that. If my interpretation was wrong then I'm sorry.
