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Does Space Need Environmentalists?
Does space need environmentalists, asks the headline from a new article in Noema magazine. "As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson notes, the first trillionaire will be made in space. "But amid such promising developments are worries among some scientists and environmentalists who fear humans wil...
"But amid such promising developments are worries among some scientists and environmentalists who fear humans will repeat the errors that resource extraction has wroughtonEarth..." If we have mining in space, do we need a preemptive anti-mining campaign to protect our solar system from rampant exploitation before it is too late? What might happen, for example, if the United States simply began scooping up asteroids for platinum, or if Blue Origin established a mine at the lunar South Pole without securing consensus from others? It's an initial step toward securing a consensus on space regulations, and one that's to date received the signatures of 47 nations including Japan, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (though China and Russia are notably absent).
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