The Moon Economic Wars
Humans haven’t gone back to the moon yet, but it’s already generating controversy.
It’s a given that, no matter how deep into space humans go, they will bring along with them the cultural problems that we face on Planet Earth.
Broadly speaking, the plans for moon exploration involve tapping into the satellite’s minerals and maybe even water to help make the human-built permanent bases viable.
These bases would, in turn, become the stepping stones for further space exploration to Mars and beyond.
The issue of a human presence on the moon divides societies between the proponents of economic exploration of the moon and those whose conservationism – expressed as a way to ‘protect scientific development’.
