Wasn’t that convincing for me. The hard science elements seemed a bit cherry-picked and the later sections on governance and laws seem to want almost a wide spr

Wasn’t that convincing for me. The hard science elements seemed a bit cherry-picked and the later sections on governance and laws seem to want almost a wide spread agreement across multiple countries on every detail before people are allowed to go. A multi-part review [1] is available which detailed more aspects quite well. In short, people will go for a multitude of reasons (whether it is sensible or not). [1] https://planetocracy.org/p/review-of-a-city-on-mars-part-i https://planetocracy.org/p/review-of-a-city-on-mars-part-i