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Will Space Technology Create Green Solutions for Earth?
dailygalaxy.com — So far, the effort to figure out a way for safe, sustainable development for humankind has been tied to planet Earth, but some are beginning to think not just “outside the box," but outside the entire atmosphere.
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- manzplan, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4or we could just stop overpopulating our planet.
- AmyVernon, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3I find it interesting that there's been so much literature written on humans populating space that it doesn't even seem that weird anymore, but people still resist funding space exploration.
- WriterSD, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2That's a really good point. I think people forget that discoveries made through space exploration, plus the technology needed to further such endeavors, really does help the rest of our economy as a whole.
- SuperWinner, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3More eco-guilt news.. yay!
- Orion1004, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Not eco-guilt, its common sense: access to the raw materials found on the Moon as well as unfiltered solar energy could be used to increase dramatically our stock of resources and energy while providing unlimited sinks for pollutants. Such an approach would satisfy two of the most demanding issues regarding sustainability, finding renewable energy sources and the disposal of pollutants.
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