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Indeed, the productive utilization of space could support our needs on Earth. With space-borne solutions leading to massive job growth, a roaring global economy, rising living standards for impoverished nations, sensible solutions to environmental problems, new alternative energy sources that are endlessly abundant, increased food production, and the material resources required to sustain a thriving mankind on Earth for the life of our solar system. “The central reason is the preservation of civilization, its future, and the terrestrial environment,” Ehricke said. But in the 1960s and ‘70s, an anti-technology/no growth movement was already turning the tide against such logic. |