The Planetary Shuffle

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Global warming the key to life on Mars

A rather dry article to read today I'm afraid. It's nice to know "they" are thinking about where we can all go after the Earth has been exploited and rendered uninhabitable.

Scientists are thinking about ways that they could make Mars more hospitable for life in the future. Their solution? Let's use our expert knowledge on the effects of greenhouse gases to heat Mars to a level that will allow life to reawaken. I find it comforting to think that the knowledge of what we are doing to our own planet can be applied in a constructive way.

It's just a shame that we, the majority of humans can't work out that if doing this to Mars will make it more like Earth, won't doing the same thing to the Earth make it more like Venus?