Name: Civilization on the Moon -- and what it means for life on Earth | Jessy Kate Schingler
Uploaded: 2020-10-27T19:22:28.000Z
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Right now, there's a lot happening with the Moon.

China has announced plans for an inhabited South Pole station

and the United States has an official road map

seeking an increasing number of people living and working in space.

This will start with NASA's Artemis program,

an international program to send the first woman and the next man

Billionaires and the private sector are getting involved

There are over a hundred launch companies around the world

and roughly a dozen private lunar transportation companies

readying robotic missions to the lunar surface.

We have reusable rockets for the first time in human history.

This will enable the development of infrastructure

there could be up to a billion metric tons of water ice on the Moon.

That's greater than the size of Lake Erie,

and enough water to support perhaps hundreds of thousands of people

So although official plans are always evolving,

there's real reason to think that we could see people

However, the Moon is roughly the size of the continent of Africa,

and we're starting to see that the key resources

This raises important questions about coordinating access to scarce resources.

And there are also legitimate questions about going to the Moon:

and reproducing the systemic inequalities of today's capitalism.

Don't we have enough big challenges here on Earth?

Internet governance, pandemics, terrorism and, perhaps most importantly,

the idea of the Moon as just a destination

But what's most interesting about the Moon

isn't the billionaires with their rockets

or the same old power struggle between states.

And it's the opportunity to update our democratic institutions

to respond to a new era of planetary-scale challenges.

I'm going to tell you about how the Moon can be a canvas

for solving some of our biggest challenges here on Earth.

I've been kind of obsessed with this topic since I was a teenager.

I've spent the last two decades working on international space policy,

but also on small community projects with bottom-up governance design.

I went to a UN conference on the peaceful uses of outer space

Over two weeks, 160 young people from over 60 countries

were crammed into a big hotel next to the UN building.

about the role of space in humanity's future.

that we actually decided to keep living together.

Now, living with 20 people might sound kind of crazy,

but over the years, it enabled us to create a high-trust group

that allowed us to experiment with these social technologies.

We designed governance systems ranging from assigning a CEO

and we moved from DC think tanks to working for NASA

how even small groups could be a petri dish

for important societal questions such as representation,

People often talk about the Moon as a petri dish

But because of the legal agreements that govern the Moon,

it actually has something very important in common

with our global challenges here on Earth.

They both involve issues that require us to think beyond territory and borders,

meaning the Moon is actually more of a template

Signed in 1967, the Outer Space Treaty is the defining treaty

that radically alter the basis on which laws can be constructed.

The first is a requirement for free access to all areas of a celestial body.

And the second is that the Moon and other celestial bodies

are not subject to national appropriation.

because the entire earthly international system --

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