We need, instead,
to recognize that there are
more important tasks that demand
our attention in devising
and enacting a new kind of
ethic for the global community.
The goal should not
be further chauvinistic space travel
but rather a commitment to
achieve planetary survival.
We already live on
the largest inhabitable “space
ship” in the known
universe. Yet our policies and
behavior are in the process of
destroying our own life support systems.
This marks a
failure of moral imagination.
