Should Humans Colonize Mars? No

Space advocates, presidents, and NASA administrators have talked for decades about sending people back to the Moon and on to Mars, to stay. Neither funding nor public support has materialized. Billionaire Elon Musk has declared his intent to establish a human colony on Mars, drawing much media atten...

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Subtitles:To Mars, the Milky Way and beyond: science, theology and ethics look at space exploration
Main Author: Billings, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2019]
In: Theology and science
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 341-346
IxTheo Classification:NCC Social ethics
NCJ Ethics of science
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Unitarian Universalism
B Morality
B space exploration
B Colonization
B Humanism
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Summary:Space advocates, presidents, and NASA administrators have talked for decades about sending people back to the Moon and on to Mars, to stay. Neither funding nor public support has materialized. Billionaire Elon Musk has declared his intent to establish a human colony on Mars, drawing much media attention. Here Linda Billings argues that it would be unethical to contaminate a potentially habitable planet for further scientific exploration and immoral to transport a tiny, non-representative, subset of humanity-made up of people who could afford to spend hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on the trip-to live on Mars.
ISSN:1474-6719
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology and science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1632524