Funding and cooperation

I would like to see food and all other life sustaining commodities added
to Arthur's list, perhaps as just one item. Many human colonies on Earth
failed by not providing adequate amounts of food; many that we know about
(historical) and surely millions more in prehistory. Millions of would be
human colonizers died of starvation wondering how they or their leaders
could have been so short-sighted. We should not let that happen again.
Imagine appeals for money for care-packages for Mars at $ 100,000 or more
per pound of food and 8 months delivery time.
Sincerely,
Jay S. Huebner at jhuebn@...