Author of Red Mars calls ‘bullshit’ on emigrating to the planet

Article note: I love Kim Stanely Robinson's Mars books, especially for the amount of science and geopolitics he got plausible-to-right in them... but his later (2015) novel Aurora is basically to make the contrasting "extra-planetary colonization isn't going to work, we don't get a backup planet if we ruin this one" point, so it's very much not surprising that this is his current position. (also, it's ...just reality. Human biology is pretty picky about the conditions suitable for long-term habitation, and creating and sustaining them is hard.)