I agree that making our planet livable is certainly much more important and we are very bad at that. But I don't see that researching livability on Mars makes u

I agree that making our planet livable is certainly much more important and we are very bad at that. But I don't see that researching livability on Mars makes us less likely to succeed on Earth. On the contrary, researching Mars livability probably has some probability of producing breakthroughs that could help us overcome our problems here.