The current changing situation of the planet and all our efforts to reach the moon and beyond are inevitably related. Could we act smart and hopeful enough to use the synergy between them?
We cannot neglect the huge advantage that the application of concepts, technologies, and know-how in the space industry could mean for climate-related challenges.
The latest report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is quite clear, the situation is already very dramatic. This is an amazing work done by thousands of scientists and other collaborators that brings a bold and crisp conclusion, we need to act very quickly! The world is certainly not ending, but it is changing. If we want to stay in the picture, on Earth and beyond, we will need to adapt fast!
Source: United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) IPCC (https://www.ipcc.ch/)
Therefore, if we don't act now we might not have enough time to enable the 'space dreams' we all work for very hard. Both government space exploration efforts and private space industry ventures have a huge potential not only to help understand what is happening (as it already happens), but to mitigate its consequences from a more practical, innovative, and down-to-Earth approach.
As a devoted space architect, I realized we need to 'look down' more than ever and create a solid connection between Earth and Space industries, ventures, challenges, and opportunities.
This is perhaps one of the most important times in Human history since the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic. We never have so many challenges all at once and at global scale, but we also have more resources than ever before. Thus we need to think and act differently about what we do down here, but also about what we are going to do up there and how! We are all in the same Spaceship Earth, as Buckminster Fuller already clearly saw decades ago. From here, I start to explore that path myself.
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