That's a nice thought but it's 100% sci-fi, we can't act as if A will cause B because neither A nor B are certain. What if this race for survival is exactly the thing that will cause our end ?
> the technologies developed to transform Mars would be the same technologies that would help fix Earth.
Except it's literally the opposite... we need a lot of co2 on mars to make it habitable
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/mars-terraforming-not-poss...
Sorry but I don't follow. We need to act because it's a real possibility, even though it's uncertain.
> What if this race for survival is exactly the thing that will cause our end ?
... "we can't act as if A will cause B because neither A nor B are certain."
Why would it cause our end?
> Except it's literally the opposite... we need a lot of co2 on mars to make it habitable
Sure, but that's not the only thing you need to do there. You also need to make fuel - out of CO2 that's already there.
It's the plan to protect humanity (as in the genus) from extinction level events such as asteroids, mega-volcano eruptions or global wars. As a nice side effect, the technologies developed to transform Mars would be the same technologies that would help fix Earth.