“Saving” some of these areas would be like keeping the dark side of the moon “pristine”...
“Saving” some of these areas would be like keeping the dark side of the moon “pristine”...
“I don’t want a McDonalds on the moon, though this sounds like hyperbole – and I don’t want mining, either. Over and over, the human history of expansionism (one we are eager to brush aside as long as we get our inexpensive clothing and coffee beans) has served up the same tired tale: a newfound land is wrested out of balance with the ecosystems and economies it had previously supported. Those in power lay claim to these places and make choices to their own clearest benefit – choices with unintended effects that we do not and often cannot know until the damage is done.”
https://entropymag.org/saving-the-moon-an-exo-ecology/