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NO, that is the wrong outlook.
It is more within our power to fix Earth than it is to make Mars a planet that can support life. We can't even fix Detroit and you want us to engineer a planet from a barren wasteland with no breathable oxygen or drinkable water.
If you want to fix Earth and then look for other options, I'm game.
This leaving Earth and making pretend we have back up options out there is just a tremendously irresponsible, selfish, and short term view.
You make it sound like humanity is incapable of taking on more than one thing at a time. What do you do for a living? I hope you're some sort of clean energy engineer.
We've located Earth-like planets billions of miles away, but we have no evidence to confirm whether or not they're capable of supporting human life, or if they even have water or atmospheres. We've located planets like ours nears stars like ours at similar distances from those stars, but again we have no evidence to support whether or not they're capable of supporting life and they're well beyond our range.
At this point in time, humans traveling to and landing on Mars is just a theory, let alone some other planet light years away.
We have no ability or technology to terraform Earth, let alone a planet that is millions and billions of miles away. It's a fantasy at this point
If we can't terraform Earth while we're already here we're not going to be able to terraform an alien planet billions of miles away.
Do you think it's possible that travelling to Mars, even if we don't make it livable except within man-made structures, will improve our space travel technology and knowledge to begin travelling deeper into our solar system, and eventually out of it? It seems to me like we will never have the abilities to travel deep into space until we begin doing so, and Mars is obviously our best first option.