Terraform Earth first, please.
We already are.
People keep talking about terraforming Mars while we can’t even stop ourselves from reverse-terraforming Earth.
Mars is a terrible planet for humans, should refocus and live in floating cities on Venus instead.
One very silly thing I often observe in these 50s-era depictions of space life is the absurd waste of space, as if (if any of this happens) every square millimeter wouldn’t be occupied by power or life-support systems (including, in this case, food crops).
Nobody’s gonna build a dome for your French Colonial revival house and giant lawn with, like, a couple of oak trees so that you can have your dog run around.
Red Mars pretty much depicted that as well, with a big plastic bubble enclosing the required green space. I think it’s reasonable to assume that you’d need the technology to create some bubbles well in advance before you could do anything on a planetary scale.
And I’m not arguing that there wouldn’t be, say, a bubble that was just an arboretum or something like that, just that such a space would be specifically designated and its size/resource requirements be limited.
“Building and supplying a coal-fired power plant on Mars has been ridiculously expensive and wasteful, but it’s important to bring our traditions with us to this new world.”
Being miserable is kind of our thing.
And ruin both of them.
