Our Planet’s Evolution

Why is the World’s richest nation allowing itself to be pushed by the world’s richest man to spend so much of its reserves and taxpayer money in a manned mission to Mars, when a fraction of the money spent on landing a man on Mars could maintain and regenerate life in our oceans and coastal waters, work that could eventually save the oceans and us from extinction?

Enough can be learned about the extinct planet Mars using robots before we become extinct and the World is inhabited only by robots

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210406-how-kelp-can-help-solve-climate-change