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To: trebb; All

“Saving” some of these areas would be like keeping the dark side of the moon “pristine”...


Here is an “ecologist” arguing for no commercial development on the moon.

“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/


47 posted on 12/22/2017 4:52:28 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

Uh-oh, that sensible argument by the typical “ecologist” may have changed my mind........just kidding....


48 posted on 12/22/2017 5:14:04 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: marktwain

So some idiot doesn’t “want” mining - on the Moon??

If these folks had their way we’d still be living in Caves. Jeeze Louise. Have to go to school for a long time to get that stupid.


49 posted on 12/22/2017 10:10:14 AM PST by Freedom4US
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