Given SpaceX's amazing progress in 2023 (and every year before) I'd bet the Mars mission is going to happen. People don't seem to realize that in 2023 they bro

Given SpaceX's amazing progress in 2023 (and every year before) I'd bet the Mars mission is going to happen. People don't seem to realize that in 2023 they broke the record for most amount of launches of any entity on earth. They beat the second best record (Soviet Union at 60 launches in a year). His Falcon heavy updates broke the record for most amount of cargo delivered(beating Saturn V). The rate they are iterating on Starship means they may make their targets on that ship this year. The private sector has made incredible progress in getting this green initiative done. While the investments in EVs and batteries have definitely helped, a lot of this rhetoric based targets have gone nowhere. Just look at the results of COP21. I was there in Paris. It feels like such a long time ago now. The real question is why these initiatives fail? Maybe its just not possible to have the entire population transition over to a new way of thinking about emissions. After all what are emissions? They are an unaccounted for externality. Some percentage of the population cannot make their lives/businesses/operations work if they have to account for this cost.