Tournament: Mayde Creek | Round: 3 | Opponent: Idk | Judge: Idk
While it may seem that private exploration is bad it's vastly better than public exploration and is able to solve for space colonization
Diakovska and Aliieva 20 ~Halyna Diakovska and Olga Aliieva, Ph.D.s in Philosophy, Associate Professors, Donbass State Pedagogical University, "Consequentialism and Commercial Space Exploration," 2020, Philosophy and Cosmology, Vol. 24, pp. 5-24, https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/24/1, EA~
The experience of the USA showed that leadership in space exploration, which is maintained
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is integrated into the international legal field and is governed by its laws.
Green 21 ~Brian Patrick Green, director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, "Space Ethics," 2021, Rowman, pp. 4-5, EA~
In favor of going into space are such basics as gaining scientific knowledge and developing
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. This is a dire fate, but less terrible than the first.
Private actors are less radical and actively deter war in space
Cobb 21 ~Wendy N. Whitman Cobb, Associate Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, "Privatizing Peace: How Commerce Can Reduce Conflict in Space," 2021, Routledge, pp. 68-69, EA~
Finally, given the involvement of an ever-larger number of private actors in
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cost to states simply by discouraging private actors from participating in the market.
Commercial mining of asteroids solves a plethora of existential threats from scarcity, climate, terror, war, and disease.
Pelton 17—(Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown).. Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19.
Are We Humans Doomed to Extinction? What will we do when Earth's resources are
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global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future.
Resource scarcity coming now and causes extinction—asteroid mining is the only way to solve
Crombrugghe 18 – Guerric, Business Development Manager Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, "Asteroid mining as a necessary answer to mineral scarcity", LinkedIn, 1/11/2018, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/asteroid-mining-necessary-answer-mineral-scarcity-de-crombrugghe
We need minerals, and we always will. Yet, our reserves are finite
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meantime, we might want to consume existing resources a bit more efficiently.