Me I think that before we go starting new colonies somewhere else, on Mars, we should first improve our own colonies here.
That's very swell to have an eye towards the future, and develop new technologies for our survival there. But that's even more swell to develop better ways of living on our own planet first. We have everything to make everyone happy right here.
The problem, in my opinion, is the heavy concentration of populations.
We don't spread wide enough, into the lands, the forests, the mountains, the far North, the far South. By squeezing people all together we create more pollution, more disease, more rats, more corruption, more toxic wastes.
China is now limiting two childs per family and by giving tax breaks, similar to some governments giving tax reliefs to electric car buyers, like in Ontario, Canada for example.
They tried to eliminate it but they extended it just recently, just for another month.
That is only one approach on how we can improve on Earth before oil is spilling and spoiling all the Earth's beauty and its inhabitants.
That's a very small portion of my own views.
The scientists who gather informative data on our planet's climate changes and on the human race's evolution from the four corners of the globe, they are part of a network of future information for the survival/subsistence of our race here and beyond.
It's not easy to predict 1,000 years from now; how many more wars, how many more babies, how many more natural and human disasters?
Plus plus plus because how many more dead bodies from toxic water, from fake drugs, from cancer, from heart failures, from poor air quality?
It is imperative that we have intelligent leaders with an interest for survival and emancipation of the people. The economy alone is not sufficient to save the planet, it needs better management, meaning no corruption.
So, before we learn how to survive on Mars with new technologies that can provide, why not do it here when we are already here?