The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Ea… - Gerard K. O'Neill
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Ea…
- Gerard K. O'Neill
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of ti… - Gerard K. O'Neill
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of ti…
We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, … - Gerard K. O'Neill
We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, …
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to… - Gerard K. O'Neill
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to…
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with. - Gerard K. O'Neill
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always… - Gerard K. O'Neill
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always…
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. - Gerard K. O'Neill
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? - Gerard K. O'Neill
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segmen… - Gerard K. O'Neill
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segmen…
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