re: Is Mars a part of nature, and it is ethical for us to terraform that planet?

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We're a long way away from another potentially habitable planet so we should probably decide if we want to die on this rock or not.

Though, current theory is we're running into a brick wall eventually anyway.

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That and what if another virus leaks from that lab or someone 3D prints a much more lethal and equally/more contagious virus than Covid? We need to get off now. Nuclear war actually has hundreds of people involved that can (and have) stop it from happening. Nixon once drunkenly ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea, but Kissinger (in the only thing worth a damn he did) refused and told the staff to wait until morning when he was up and Nixon had no memory of doing it. All the apocalypse with the virus takes is a single stupid frick up or a single evil determined human being who happens to get the information of a deadly genome.

I think Covid has made it much more pressing for us to get back to the Moon and to Mars. Covid was as light of a plague as we could have asked for. The next one could be as deadly as the Black Death. We got off lucky and we should take advantage of this bullet merely grazing our ear rather than going through our head.