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Yes, we behave terribly on Earth. But on Mars there are no plants and animals to destroy, and unless we are super sustainable, we die in matter of months or years. So we either solve the problem ourselves or the problem solves itself. Clear win.
There are also no pesky earth laws in space, which seems like part of why people like Bezos and Musk are heavily invested in going up there. They imagine a world where they control everything, including all communication with earth, can enforce whatever rules they want, and even literally enslave people. How would anyone ever know whatever theyre doing to people out there? I bet theyll even offer the opportunity to move to a martian colony for free to entice people into the trap
Well, there's no way we will stop on Mars. It's just our first step. If it was just about reaching the Moon and Mars that'd be fine by me but people with space ambitions are dreaming about drilling to Enceladus' ocean and colonizing other moons.
And these rich guys? They don't even care about laws here on Earth. There's literally NO way anyone could stop them from ruining other life-bearing worlds.
If it makes you feel any better, Mars is kinda a non-starter. It's only about 1/4 to 1/3 the mass of The Earth. That low of a gravity well would do nasty things to human health, long term. The only way I can figure to fix that, is to either magic up a way to make a black hole with a diameter of about the size of a US cent and figure a way to secure it to the center of the core of Mars, or hurl asteroids at Mars to make up the difference in mass.
Venus would actually be much easier. It's already between 0.9 to 0.97 the mass of The Earth, so we just need some ice asteroids to create water on the planet, and then some cyanobactera and maybe a solar shade, and we'll have a warmer Earth-like planet in several hundred thousand years.
Aliens are lucky that space hates humans so much!