August 28th, 2023.
The institutional control and governance concerning the human-boosted pressure on the outer space environment is deteriorating very fast. Amid a speeding-up and overlapping climate and Earth's ecology breakdowns it is being hard to understand and to find a rational explanation to the deployment of the 'New Space Economy' while humans are discarding any collective effort in focusing all the space-related agencies and capabilities to give priority to Earth observation and damage control (as much as possible) on the Earth's Life Support Systems (ELSSs).
The attached letter is a public position paper that was sent to the acting Head of UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) last year.
As the entire world adopted the 'weak' definition of Sustainable Development (SD) humans can not get surprised to realize the entire 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda is being compromised.
The huge lack of rationality in the outer space domain is a signal that tells us the same situation is taking place in all of the remaining 'global commons' and the associated institutional architecture (treaties).
Could the space affairs researchers here in ResearchGate provide me with your inputs and papers that logically and analytically challenge that risky trend in the space domain...?
Somebody interested in writing a research paper with measurable policy-implications...?
Somebody intersted in developing a funded research proposal regardless the country where that proposal would be submitted for funding...?
Hernan L. Villagran
Some of our thoughts on "Addressing disaster and health risks for sustainable outer space" https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4668
Thank you IIan for your answer and your paper.
I do hope we can keep talking.
Have a nice weekend,
Hernan L.
A connection between environmentalism and space exploration was first mooted by Isaac Asimov:
“Unless we are willing to settle down into a world that is our prison, we must be ready to move beyond Earth…. People who view industrialization as a source of the Earth's troubles, its pollution, and the desecration of its surface, can only advocate that we give it up. This is something that we can't do; we have the tiger by the tail. We have 4.5 billion people on Earth. We can't support that many unless we're industrialized and technologically advanced. So, the idea is not to get rid of industrialization but to move it somewhere else. If we can move it a few thousand miles into space, we still have it, but not on Earth. Earth can then become a world of parks, farms, and wilderness without giving up the benefits of industrialization.”
— Isaac Asimov, “Our Future in the Cosmos: Space”, lecture given at the College of William and Mary, 1983.
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