Are environmentalists finally coming to their senses?
ames Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory, said: “I strongly support space travel. The whole notion of Gaia came out of space travel. It seems to me any environmentalist who opposes space travel has no imagination whatever. That gorgeous, inspirational image of the globe that we are now so familiar with came out of space travel. That image has perhaps been of the greatest value to the environmental movement. It gave me a great impetus.
“There are the unmanned spacecraft, which are relatively inexpensive, that I certainly think should continue. The more we know about Mars, for example, the better we can understand our own planet. The second sort, the more personally adventurous sort of travel, offers great inspiration to humans. And, were it not for space travel we’d have no mobile phones, no internet, no weather forecasts of the sort we have now and so on. There’s a lot of puritanical silliness about it.”
And that doesn’t even get into the benefits of moving polluting industry off planet.
Friday evening here in the DC area I went to a Gaia party at a local nightclub. The space images projected on the screen could not have been more noticeable. You might even say they were dominant. There were also quite a few plain computer generated images. I don’t recall much in the way of simple Earth oriented images.
The music was a bit harder to pin down. It seemed rather avant garde, though. It was along the lines of what I heard at Artomatic. Artomatic also had some space related stuff — and not just my images.