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Protecting Pristine Space, a Governmental Role
by Yasha Husain, Director, Holistic Solutions Think Tank, www.closedholisticsystems.com
September 27, 2013
In 2009, on New Year's Eve, I wrote Elusive Water Vapor: High Altitude Hydrogen Jets, and the Delicate Stratosphere. In 1999 and 2000, I wrote a handful of articles for the newly established, Space.com and the Space Illustrated Magazine, including the Top Ten Reasons to Inhabit Outerspace, which featured interviews with a US astronaut, NASA, the X-Prize's Greg Maryniak, the Space Frontier Foundation's Rick Tumlinson, and University of Southern California's space architect professor, Madhu Thangavelu, among others. I spoke with architects Nader Khalili and Paolo Soleri, Congressman Henry Waxman's office, and meanwhile visited the offices of Carl Sagan studios as I continued my research. I saw and witnessed a portion of the American Dream, and developed cable TV and PBS show ideas, as a documentarian first, in light of all I documented as a writer and ambitious independent filmmaker. While my films and show ideas didn't take off, my writing didn't stop, but grew and took turns toward long-form until I decided to write a book series on holism, which would cover the total compass of my career, but for which I took a break to write the article, Elusive Water Vapor, in late 2009. The article defines a delicate stratosphere that I knew in 2000, logically and intuitively, and by 2009, factually and legally, held a balance for our troposphere and the universe's multiverses or multidimensional, environmental spheres.Now it seems that we've not explored space, and its planets and their moons, with the moon as a starting point and means to discover more knowledge of space science, as I wrote about, was popularly conceived in 1999, and in that era.
While the article on the stratosphere is enlightening, and raises important questions, the article, Top Ten Reasons to Inhabit Space, discussed the potential to mine asteroids, and otherwise it describes environmentally-sound uses of space science.
I would say now and again that we need to keep the space industry in line with governmental regulations and relations, in light of the need to protect the pristine nature of space, the balance of resources here on earth (I don't think, ultimately, we need to mine space), the delicate stratosphere, governmental relations between nations, and individual rights, since individuals don't, each of us, have economies of scale in space.
Outer space is meanwhile essentially shared space and therefore needs to be governed by a shared governmental response, internationally, and one that duly respects national sovereignty, and individual sovereignty, and the demands of pristine and sound environments, about which, when we talk about space, we know less than we know of our environment here on earth, and in the troposphere, and have less common sense access to, at least so far.
We need common sense, holistic space travel that is economical, environmentally and socioeconomically. Paolo Soleri told me we also need love in any space colony, and any habitation, we build. For the long haul, government needs to protect individual rights, but also the state of nature and its balance, and with heart, and should therefore continue to protect a pristine space, with the goal of regulating the space industry by way of a close relationship to government and its institutions, but not too close, not allowing for chiefly financial interests, otherwise holistically, not neglecting our earthly and human needs and capacities, but being propelled by the vision of space Carl Sagan shared,
Purportedly, NASA and the space industry's development could grow in harmony with the proposals of the Holistic Solutions Think Tank, including its recently released publication, Economy, Notes, while the role of industry is still unique alongside the governmental role, in the majority.
Yasha Melanie Husain. Copyright 2013-14.