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Its three large areas we aren't putting effort into putting people and terraforming. They've got the same challenges but are easier
by 8note 6y ago
Its three large areas we aren't putting effort into putting people and terraforming.
They've got the same challenges but are easier
- chadcmulligan 6y agoThats the first thought I always have when terraforming is discussed, we can't even fix earth, how would we fix another planet.
- XorNot 6y agoEarth has a lot of people living on it, and any effort at repair is just as likely to wreck it. You can't "colonize and terraform Siberia" without turning the US into a scorching desert. Mars has 0 people living on it, and is already uninhabitable. We literally cannot make it worse for anybody, and are in no danger of wrecking anything we need to survive by trying. I would much larger we try planet-scale geo-engineering on Mars, then try planet scale geoengineering on Earth (and we're already flirting with that because of climate change). There is a wealth of information to be gained from attempting dramatic changes to a planet's condition, and establishing a biosphere, which would be extremely important for any attempt at large scale Earth biosphere repair.
- lmm 5y agoWe could if we had the political will. There are terraforming-like approaches that would e.g. reduce global temperature, but good luck getting the political consensus to actually put them into practice.