I'm a huge fan of space exploration - went to space camp as a kid, was a part of a genomics experiment currently being conducted on the space station, etc. But

I'm a huge fan of space exploration - went to space camp as a kid, was a part of a genomics experiment currently being conducted on the space station, etc. But I have to ask... Why are we going to eventually have a Mars colony? Overpopulation? Climate change? Lack of resources? I don't see how colonizing Mars would solve or even help that. The same technology that we would use to make Mars inhabitable would probably work much better on Earth to solve our current issues. The amount of effort and innovation required for Mars to host millions of people is massive. As a thought experiment, though, I don't think we can even conceptualize the form of government that will Mars will have because it's so far off. Perhaps it will be mostly managed by AI