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No colony on Mars yet... A colony on Mars relies on Earth. 2c in 100 years isn't the problem. The problem are the low probability events. Animals can run out of the forest during a fire, I don't really see that the humans did significantly better. We didn't stop an entire town from burning down, we didn't have enough of an advance warning, death toll may be well beyond 100, we don't even know how many people perished in the fire.

It is simply foolish to be pushing on this system for no good reason. I don't want to roll a d100 dice where if it comes out 1 we all die. That's a terrible gamble. Sure 90 out of 100 would only be a hotter world with more storms and fires and vast stretches of land disappearing under the oceans.