[lmm]

> If we can't terraform Earth's deserts, do we really stand a chance with Mars?

It's not that we couldn't, it's that we don't care to - partly because the reward isn't there, and partly because there are opposing interests. Humans absolutely have had (and are having) large-scale impact on the Earth's climate, and that's while mostly trying not to.

[espadrine]

It is easy to have an effect on something, and much harder to have a positive one.

Building a house takes months, but in a day, it can be burnt. Fighting entropy 101.

[TeMPOraL]

Now imagine building that house together with 20 people who all try to scream at, sue or shoot each other over trivial and irrelevant details. That's generally how all international affairs look like. In terms of lowering entropy, we're not even trying.

[namaemuta]

That's why I want SpaceX to success. If they manage to get some profits or find something interesting out there, the race for the colonization would be even bigger than the space race during the cold war.