The case against humans in space

Mary Jin Robinstein, a debt researcher at the University Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Space Racing of CorporatesThat appeared in a normal cover last year. Everything begins, appropriately, with the Book of Genesis, where God creates the earth for human sovereignty. Over the years, the biblical brain worm has provided this divine justification for brutal colonialism and the environmental exploitation of our planet. Robinstein says he is now working as a religious missile fuel that pushes humans to the following borders.

The intense “newspapers race” is a legendary project as much as it is a political, economic or scientific project. “They are legends, in fact, that bring together all other efforts together, giving them an aura of duty, greatness, and charity.”

Robinstein offers a strong argument that the malicious growth of Christian ideas is the fall of the dreams of space settlements that musk, Bezos, and lovers of similar thinking-even if these people themselves may describe themselves religious. If the Earth is controlling a man, then space is the next logical step. The Earth is just a temporary floor for a greater fate; We will find our salvation in the sky.

“The curse on the ground,” Elon Musk said in 2014. “

Jeff Bezos, for one, claims that he cares about the ground; This is among the best arguments for the reason that humans should exceed them. If the heavy industries and the great civilian population who were thrown into the tropical extension, our world can be at home, with its words, “the specialized and light industrial industry”, which allows it to recover from the human pressure origin.

Bezos also believes that space settlements are necessary to improve humanity, partly on the basis that they will cancel our population growth. It imagines a tropical archipelago of stations, a dumplings across the solar system, which can support a collective population with a trillion -person population. “This is a thousand Mozart.” What a wonderful civilization will be. “

It looks great. But it is an easy throwing throw to Robinstein: This “Numbers Game” approach is also written by Hittins and Stalins.

This is the true essence of the argument against pushing the tallness of the expansion of human civilization into space: we will remain human when we get there. We will not escape from vices and weakness by leaving the Earth – in fact, it may be hypocritical.