Why We Earthlings Should Colonize Mars!

Mars can and should be settled with Earth émigrés. For our generation and many that will follow, Mars is the New World. Exploration, settlement, and colonization are inherent in the human spirit. We earthlings must reject misleading prophesies such as the Malthusian fear that we are running out of r...

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Subtitles:To Mars, the Milky Way and beyond: science, theology and ethics look at space exploration
Main Author: Zubrin, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2019]
In: Theology and science
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 305-316
IxTheo Classification:NCJ Ethics of science
Further subjects:B Progress
B Thomas Malthus
B colonize
B Mars (Planet)
B Club of Rome
B terraform
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Summary:Mars can and should be settled with Earth émigrés. For our generation and many that will follow, Mars is the New World. Exploration, settlement, and colonization are inherent in the human spirit. We earthlings must reject misleading prophesies such as the Malthusian fear that we are running out of resources on our planet. Resources abound off-Earth in space. Humanity's potential for growth is unlimited. Failure to terraform and colonize Mars would constitute a failure to live up to our human nature, and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself.
ISSN:1474-6719
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology and science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1632519