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I feel like space and terraforming have gotten a bad wrap since their primary purpose seems to be to provide a false solution to climate change.
But, if we did manage to "win" at existing on Earth, we could still get completely wrecked by asteroids, super-volcanos, etc. So some sort of non-terrestrial proliferation of DNA-based life seems like a solid investment. So:
Short-term: space elevator
Long-term: warp drive or some way to bypass speed of light limitations
Or at the very least, give up our anthropocentric biases and rig up a mass Tardigrade or Fungal Spore Yeeter to do our part for Panspermia
Eon-term: gently nudging the sun's orbit through the galactic disc so that in the unthinkably distant future we can make our liquid water zone do a kissy with a red dwarf's liquid water zone, handing off the earth to something with a real lifespan.
edit: we probably want to take Jupiter with us if it hasn't already got a gas giant to herd away the asteroids.