History is written by the winners (or survivors), so if a colony on "MARS" would survive humanity, certainly option b) will deserve most of the chapters. It's

History is written by the winners (or survivors), so if a colony on "MARS" would survive humanity, certainly option b) will deserve most of the chapters. It's pretty sad to see though that many users are only seeing two options: 1) give away money to charities to solve symptomatic problems 2) invest money in technologies who try to solve, again, symptomatic problems A more effective approach would be to work out the causes; first of all, education would be the key. But this is the hard way of approaching problems.