Earth First: Why Fixing Our Planet Beats Fleeing to Mars
We’ve all seen the glossy Mars colonization renders, gleaming domes under red skies, smiling astronauts tending hydroponic gardens. Elon Musk wants to make humans a "multiplanetary species" and promises a “backup planet.” NASA sketches bases with 3D-printed pizza. But peel back the PR, and you’ll find the cruelest irony of our age: we’re fantasizing about terraforming a dead world while actively un-terraforming our living one. Mars offers no fresh start. A -80°F wasteland where the soil poisons lungs, cosmic radiation fries DNA, and every breath requires machines that can fail. Meanwhile, Earth, even with rising seas and wildfires, still cradles us in breathable air, liquid water, and a magnetic field that deflects lethal space radiation. We’re not losing a planet; we’re abandoning the only garden in a galactic desert for a concrete bunker on a toxic rock. Earth is Already Perfectly Designed for Us Earth provides exactly what humans need: breathable air, abundant water, ferti...