Sovereign Mars

Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-7006-3390-6
Verlag: University Press of Kansas

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The goal of sending humans to Mars is becoming increasingly technologically feasible, but the prospect of space colonization raises important questions about civilizational ethics and collective morality. History shows how destructive colonialism has been, resulting in centuries-long struggles to achieve liberation from the violent competition for land and resources by colonial powers. Space settlement poses the same temptation on a cosmic scale, with commercial actors and government space agencies doing the work previously carried out by European empires. The question is whether humans will take a different approach in this new frontier.In Sovereign Mars, astrobiologist Jacob Haqq-Misra argues that settling Mars offers humankind a transformative opportunity to avoid the mistakes of the past by “liberating Mars” as a sovereign planet from the start. Rather than see space as a way to escape human problems on Earth, Mars presents humanity with a challenge to address these problems by thinking carefully about the theory and practice of civilization. Drawing on past examples of cooperative sovereignty, such as the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the United Nations Law of the Sea Conventions, and the Antarctic Treaty System, Haqq-Misra begins a conversation about governance in space well in advance of the first arrival of humans on Mars and makes the case for an analogous approach to space that will preserve the space environment and benefit future generations.Haqq-Misra examines the emergence of sovereignty in space through the lens of historical precedent on Earth and develops models of shared governance that could maximize the transformative potential of Mars settlement. Sovereign Mars proposes the planet would serve humankind best as an independent planetary state, a juridical peer to Earth, to enable new experiments in human civilization and develop a pragmatic model for shared governance on Mars.

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Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Weltraumforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface1. Why Live in Space2. Sovereignty on Earth3. The Outer Space Treaty4. the Law of the Sea5. The Antarctic Treaty System6. Cooperative Sovereignty on Mars7. Transformative Value8. Sovereign Mars9. Deep Altruism10. Think Like a MartianAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Haqq-Misra is a research scientist with the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science.