Why would you need FTL? There's a whole system to colonize in our backyard. Teraforming seems daunting, but start one dome at a time and it grows from there. A

Why would you need FTL? There's a whole system to colonize in our backyard. Teraforming seems daunting, but start one dome at a time and it grows from there. And the technology is pretty much there, it's just that the will isn't. Is taking an FTL ship to another galaxy, even with a known habitable planet, that much easier than creating a dome city on Mars? What if they're barely habitable? Who is going to do that and what for? Same resources, and no one wants to because Earth already has it all (and yes, by the time they're exhausted, it will be too late for anything). Colonize the solar system, and if FTL is created, great, if not, meh.