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The Urgency of Large-Scale Space Migration (LSSM) – Frank White
22 January @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm UTC+0
Abstract
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to let us know that Spaceship Earth is in deep trouble.
Humanity is operating as if we did not live on a finite planet with limited resources and a fragile ecosystem. Beyond our blindness to the interconnected nature of everything on Earth, we are using our intelligence to create weapons with which to kill other crew members of our spaceship! It’s all because of our obsession with borders and boundaries that the experience of the Overview Effect reveals to be an illusion.
We must urgently provide as many people as possible with the transformational impact of the Overview Effect so that they will wake up from their dream about reality and see for themselves what is actually real.
Then, we must begin to create the infrastructure for Large-Scale Space Migration (LSSM), so that as many people and as much industry as possible can move off of the Earth and give the planet a chance to recover from our destructive behavior.
For this enormous “central project,” we do need rocket scientists!
Biography
Frank White has authored or coauthored numerous books on topics ranging from space exploration to climate change to artificial intelligence. His best-known work, “The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution,” is considered by many to be a seminal work in the field of space exploration. A film called “Overview,” based largely on his work, has had more than 8 million plays on Vimeo. White considers himself to be a “space philosopher,” and has long advocated developing a new philosophy of space exploration. His book on this topic, “The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Overview Effect,” asks the fundamental question, “What is the purpose of human space exploration? Why has the evolutionary process brought humanity to the brink of becoming a spacefaring species?” In the book, he shares the idea of “the Human Space Program” as a “central project” that will engage all of us in the process of becoming “Citizens of the Universe.”
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