Humanity can preserve sections of it for aesthetic or scientific purposes,
Oh I don't disagree! The natural world and the artificial world are in a dialectical relationship, one can not exist without the other. It seems entirely possible to reach a synthesis.
Forbidding humans from setting foot on Mars is pointless anyway, if it's possible then it literally can not be truly forbidden because people will go there no matter what. People trespass in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, they'll trespass on Mars too.
We've already disturbed the ancient landscape with our rovers anway, even if we painstakingly undid the damage it wouldn't really be natural. It'd just be an artificial rehabilitation.
Oh I don't disagree! The natural world and the artificial world are in a dialectical relationship, one can not exist without the other. It seems entirely possible to reach a synthesis.
Forbidding humans from setting foot on Mars is pointless anyway, if it's possible then it literally can not be truly forbidden because people will go there no matter what. People trespass in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, they'll trespass on Mars too.
We've already disturbed the ancient landscape with our rovers anway, even if we painstakingly undid the damage it wouldn't really be natural. It'd just be an artificial rehabilitation.
Humans can have a little bit of Mars, as a treat.