There is not enough focus on space colonisation

Firstly, to deal with you argument: There will always exist some sort of tension between biological creations, even bubbles .. a most beautiful phenomena, have conflict and bounce of each other, or pop when they come into contact with one another, or stick together to form larger groups .. biology will always have a certain level of conflict when seen as separate distinct forms of life, though petty squabbles should not stop us from furthering our civilisation, they should be looked at as the grinding of gears which force us to move past our insular views and inspire us to create positive change .. without conflict there would be no conflict resolution or revolution; thus conflict is no reason to stop us from looking forward towards space colonisation. Instead, the conflict you describe should be seen as a public forum that provides the catalytic seeds of political movements seeds that must be nutured, as they may then blossom into beautiful revolutions , bettering society as a whole ... you go to the gym to break your muscles, that you may return home to eat&rest thus growing your muscles back stronger ... thus there is no reason as to why the existence of the gym, and exercises to break down your muscles, should be held as reasoning not to recuperate and regrow larger, stronger, muscles, or in this case why petty squabbles on earth should be reason not to look towards more glorious space civilisations. (Which in time will probably also fight, and learn and re-build) There are always disagreements between biological life forms, though these only create the playing fields to then practice and refine our spirits before creating better systems of law, politics, agriculture and entertainment. As you said 'getting of this rock' before we go extinct is a prime concern for the human race who have been on this planet for 6,000 years, within large civilisations for 4,000 years, in acknowledgement of our place in the heavens for 2,000 years and have had technology outside of that available to us ON the planet, satellites, for example, in space, since 1957, thus if we have had 'scouts'(Satellites) in space for 60 years, the next conceivable step is to expand our resource gathering, and finally colonisation, off-planet .. however there needs to be an urgency seen to this similar to that of if there were an encroaching army, we would be in a state of emergency working to bolster our defences etc. similarly with the resource struggles on Earth, seen within the mass movements of refugees, and wars for land/gold/oil .. it is indeed a state of emergency citizens of the Earth need to see the colonisation of space .. Finally, your opening argument has only outlined the reasons why we haven't so far been focusing on space colonisation, not proposed any reasons why we should continue to ignore the encroaching dark matter shattering at the end of each universal expansion nor have you put forward any arguments as to the the limited current space projects that go on, and why we should maintain such a limited view .. conversely I put forward that we are in dire need of expanding these geological missions towards actual occupation of other world colonies, or space ship cities, and geological harvesting, not just testing .. Clearly these reasons, found in your arguments, should be no sticking point to withhold our senses from exploring the vast glories space has to offer us, nor our dreams from imaginaging the great empires, ships and technological prowess that having access to space and all her bountiful pleasures, uncharted worlds, star systems and mineral richness would allow us to imagine and build. Instead I restate my Pro side of the argument there is NOT enough focus on space colonisation and put forward the supportive reasoning that the urgency at which people view space colonisation is negligible and must be raised through public advertisements encouraging space travel, rather than ads telling us to keep drinking milk! As we have the technology, and the minds to achieve something beautiful, it is only our own fear and greed that may hold us back ... Space .. where there is a Billion stars for each of us :')