Humans will never solve war unless we genetically re-engineer our entire species (which carries its own risks of annhilation/extinction causing consequences).

Humans will never solve war unless we genetically re-engineer our entire species (which carries its own risks of annhilation/extinction causing consequences). Thus in the interest of increasing our species odds of survival and reducing our dependence on a single planet, we should pursue space travel as soon as possible, regardless what other problems remain unsolved. But better than space travel is space commercialization. Make space a profit center rather than a cost center. If space can be made economically viable sooner than later, for example via JPL's recent KISS study, so much the better. There's quadrillions of dollars of value in the asteroid belt, enough to forestall earth-based resource wars for generations at least. But the human race will always be messy, and attempting to focus on fixing that unfixable problem is not a good reason to postpone forward progress.