Oh hey cool, an op-ed I wrote is now published!
TLDR: we need *fewer* satellites, each with *longer* operational lifetimes. Engineers: that's your challenge.
Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.
Imagine if we lived in a world where cooperation and collaboration were the norm, instead of competition and rivalry.
We could do so much more, especially with the trillions we'd save on weapons and armies.
@Disputatore @sundogplanets @PhoenixSerenity
I know what there is to work with.
The question is, what do we do with that, and how can we do it.
Simply accepting the status quo isn't acceptable.
@Disputatore @sundogplanets @PhoenixSerenity
Those systems need not resemble the ones in eurocentric countries.
Other cultures have done things differently.
And they don't need to be on the scale of, for example, spending $trillions per year on the military.
@EricLawton @sundogplanets @PhoenixSerenity they may not need to, but that doesn't mean that they won't. The borders of the countries in Africa and the Middle East were all artificially designed by the colonial powers. There are loads of ethnic and religious tensions that now and then explode into conflict.
Then there is the fact that military spending isn't necessarily for war. It can also be to avoid it.
China isn't an Eurocentric country and yet...
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-currently-at-war
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