which is going to be easier: terraforming mars or making sure the earth doesn’t increase its temperature by 5 degrees
If I was gonna steel-man the counter argument, I'd guess I'd say the logic is that old habits die hard and actually confronting climate change on Earth requires human civilization retool it's entire approach the industrialization. Moving to some new planet, while technically harder work, is a "clean slate" so the speak. Since you're building from scratch you're not bogged down by a system that actually does "work" in the sense that it does what it's supposed to but needs to be reworked to be sustainable, you can actually just build what works all around from the get go.
It's like how, yeah technically it would be easy to just reorganize my room, BUT I'm a lazy fuck to the current chaos provides what I need, so if I REALLY want a cleaner room I gotta pull some dramatic stunt where I pull every single thing out of the room and throw half of it away and then reorganize all the furniture, and then my room will actually feel clean for like 3 months or so.
If I was gonna steel-man the counter argument, I'd guess I'd say the logic is that old habits die hard and actually confronting climate change on Earth requires human civilization retool it's entire approach the industrialization. Moving to some new planet, while technically harder work, is a "clean slate" so the speak. Since you're building from scratch you're not bogged down by a system that actually does "work" in the sense that it does what it's supposed to but needs to be reworked to be sustainable, you can actually just build what works all around from the get go.
It's like how, yeah technically it would be easy to just reorganize my room, BUT I'm a lazy fuck to the current chaos provides what I need, so if I REALLY want a cleaner room I gotta pull some dramatic stunt where I pull every single thing out of the room and throw half of it away and then reorganize all the furniture, and then my room will actually feel clean for like 3 months or so.