Prof. Sam LawlerHilding Neilson @astrojipjawej just talked about how Indigenous treaties acknowledge the land, and ask the question "what can you give back to the land" rather than being purely exploitative like, say, the Outer Space Treaty or Artemis Accords. What can we give back to outer space? #IAUS385
Nick Campion talks about how SpaceX has powerful "sustainable" imagery + "helpful" narrative, but we're actually just re-doing violent colonization in space. How do we fight this?
We don't need to argue that there aren't benefits (there definitely are). SpaceX is essentially "greenwashing" the pollution they are producing - need to calculate TOTAL cost of satellite constellations (enviro, culture, human). "Our Space: not yours to destroy." Nature does not end as we leave the Earth.
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