[Spaceships] Million Merchant Marathon

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Originally Posted by Anthony

If the terraforming plan cost ten times as much as cleaning up the Earth, I could see it happening.

I get the impression that isn't really the choice being posed. A bunch of "terraforming nations" get together to terraform the moon and two planets to "create jobs". In the meantime, environmental degradation destroys Africa, which the "terraforming nations" don't care about, because they're stupid and short-sighted. Then there's enormous refugee crisis that causes mass chaos (I feel icky writing that).

The situation isn't: "The environment's being destroyed, we can clean up the Earth or Terraform Mars", it's, "We should have spent more money on foreign aid."

Then again, any organization that can afford to terraform multiple worlds at once probably has so much wealth that they could divert a tiny fraction of their budget towards foreign aid and avoid the problem to begin with.