Good luck doing anything on any other planet if you can't even handle your own that's perfectly suited for your kind of life form.

Was it my comment you really wanted to reply to? My point is that there are things we can do right now/today in order to heal our society from the sort of malignancies that distract us from advancing as a race.

Yeah, let's ignore current issues and instead focus on remote stars.

Scientists and engineers with an interest in such things would have an easier time working on it, if the broader economic and civic context they work in wasn't being messed with by demagogues.

They shouldn't be drafted to resolve the rise of petty tyrants. It's a waste of their time.

the message you replied to implied the exact opposite.