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Dark Skies - Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity (Hardcover)
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Dark Skies - Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity (Hardcover)
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Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon
Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space
Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech
weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare
and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space
solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers
insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our
many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to
runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for
solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And
indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space
advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by
oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space
beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing,
a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even
basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures
really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the
first book to critically assess the major consequences of space
activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and
beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result
of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global
nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of
recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently
space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age
science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on
Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life,
but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness
stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As
he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking
to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space
colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not
alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should
fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies
challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.
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