Astronomers Have Warned Against Colonial Practices in the Space Industry − a Philosopher of Science Explains How the Industry Could Explore Other Planets Without Exploiting Them
An environmental consciousness began to crystallize. As historian Robert Poole notes in “Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth,” the Space Age flipped from a narrative of outward conquest to one of inward rediscovery. The first Earth Day was held in 1970, and the popular metaphor “Spaceship Earth” shifted from describing a technical vessel managed... See more
The Politics Of Planetary Color | NOEMA
Qui a besoin d’un État-nation opérationnel quand l’espace – apparemment l’obsession première d’Elon Musk – nous appelle ? Mars est devenu son arche laïque, qu’il estime être essentielle pour la survie de la civilisation humaine, par exemple grâce au transfert de la conscience vers une intelligence artificielle globale. Kim Stanley Robinson,... See more
Naomi Klein • La montée du fascisme de la fin des temps
The climate emergency facing humanity is a direct outcome of economic and political arrangements that view the natural world as a resource to be exploited only for economic gain while marginalizing alternate worldviews that regard humans as custodians of the planet (Büscher, Sullivan, Neves, Igoe, & Brockington, 2012). In this article, we argue
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