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Assuming there would be a middle class and we didn't destroy ourselves or ended up in a dystopia.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Why would anyone want to go to Mars? Maybe 2000 years from now, after we've perhaps terraformed it. Until then, Mars is hell.

The best planet for any species is the planet they evolved on. We're a perfect match for Earth. We should stay on Earth until we develop the ability to terraform, or travel to another planet nearly identical to Earth.

Also, if we fuck up this planet to the point we can no longer survive here, then we should certainly not go out and fuck up another planet.