The out-of-this-world hype cycle: Progression towards sustainable terrestrial resource production

Moore, Kathryn; Segura-Salazar, Juliana; Bridges, L.; Diallo, Penda; Doyle, K.; Johnson, C.; Foster, Patrick; Pollard, N.; Whyte, Nicola; Wright, O.

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106519

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“…Subsequently, space mining has been argued as a solution given the commercially lucrative metals in asteroids such as cobalt, nickel, platinum, iron, nickel, rare earth elements, and precious metals (Deberdt and Le Billon, 2023). In recent years, spacefaring nations and private companies began exploring the possibility of extracting resources from the Moon and asteroids with the hope to transport them back to Earth (Moore et al, 2022;Yarlagadda, 2022). These developments have raised concerns in relation to benefit sharing for the global society, as there is no proper governance framework in place that mandates such practice (Jakhu et al, 2017;Butkeviciene and Rabitz, 2022).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Commons In Spacementioning

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Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth

Janssen,

Yap

2024

International Journal of the Commons

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Section: Conceptualizing Commons In Spacementioning

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Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth

Janssen,

Yap

2024

International Journal of the Commons

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“…As such, the bioeconomy appears to be characterised by several important technofuturist characteristics. Firstly, scholarship on technofuturism has highlighted how technofuturist visions centre innovation and visions of linear progress (Moore et al, 2022;Hong, 2022). Secondly, there is the identification of concentrations of political power and profit, and the fostering of capital accumulation based on technology and commodities (Chandrashekeran and Sadowski, 2022;Moore et al, 2022).…”

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“…Firstly, scholarship on technofuturism has highlighted how technofuturist visions centre innovation and visions of linear progress (Moore et al, 2022;Hong, 2022). Secondly, there is the identification of concentrations of political power and profit, and the fostering of capital accumulation based on technology and commodities (Chandrashekeran and Sadowski, 2022;Moore et al, 2022). Finally, there is a sense that while technofutures preach revolutionary change, they practise the politics of inertia, sustaining 'stagnant imaginaries of social relations embedded in those [eternally novel] futures' (Hong, 2021(Hong, , p. 1940.…”

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An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city

Veelen

Knuth

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central cities and skylines. Champions of new mass timber materials have driven a race on iconic ‘plyscrapers’ and, increasingly, novel systems of industrial prefabrication. Drawing on the notion of sociotechnical imaginaries, we explore how advocates attempt to ‘fix’ desirable future cities and urban bioeconomies through this biomaterial. In doing so, we suggest that mass timber's emergent sociotechnical imaginary embodies a distinct kind of futuring, which we label ‘nostalgic futurism’, conjoining ‘technofuturist’ and ‘nostalgic-reparative’ visions. We find that, on the one hand, mass timber proponents embrace competitive novelty, uniting drives for architectural distinction and high-tech disruption. On the other hand, aesthetic advocates put forward visions around the material's more traditional premodern/preindustrial associations, in narratives of biophilic design which claim therapeutic benefits of contact with visible nature in buildings. These conjoined forward- and backward-looking compulsions pose tensions and internal contradictions. Nostalgic-reparative visions risk greenwashing and reproducing unequal access to environmental amenities, while reinscribing regressive appeals to an imagined past. Meanwhile, technofuturist drives extend late capitalist growth imperatives and pressures for accelerated material churn in both forests and urban centres—while obscuring tough questions about mass timber buildings’ expected lifetimes and claims for long-term carbon sequestration. Conversely, a reimagined mass timber project might support more progressive movements for climate restoration, repair, and reparations.

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“…First, there is what might be called techno-pessimism, which views technology as a source of harm or disruption and is often skeptical about the net benefits that technological progress can bring. This perspective (Moore et al 2022) points to the lack of certainty about potential benefits for Earth. They cast doubt on many of the benefits potentially deriving from space with the arguments that: "(1) other planets are not life-supporting and artificially-supported life might be more vulnerable than on a contaminated planet Earth;…”

Section: Economic Geopolitical Viability and A Us National Dialoguementioning

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A strategic architecture for growing a space economy utilizing foundational space weather

Tobiska

2023

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We face unprecedented resource stresses in the 21st Century such as global climate disruptions, freshwater scarcity, expanding energy demands, and the threat of global pandemics. Historically, societies have relieved resource stress by increasing trade, innovating technologically, expanding territorially, regulating, redistributing, making alliances, creating new economic models, training new skills, as well as conducting war. Do we continue depleting our already strained resources leading to more regulation, redistribution, alliances, new economics, and war or do we grow our resources using innovation, expansion, new economics, and new skills? We present the argument for evolving space development using asteroid mining as the primary activity for frontier expansion aided by Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Moon, and Mars waystations. Forecast space weather is a necessary technology baseline for developing this pathway. All activity off Earth will require a fundamental knowledge of how the energetics of space will affect technological progress. We discuss the critical elements this space economy expansion, including technical feasibility and infrastructure development, economic and geopolitical viability complete with the US National Space Weather Program dialogue, ethical and legal considerations, and risk management. This discussion helps us understand how a space economy is feasible with the aggregation of many existing and new technologies into more advanced systems’ engineering projects.

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The out-of-this-world hype cycle: Progression towards sustainable terrestrial resource production

Cited by 11 publications

References 107 publications

Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth

Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth

An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city

A strategic architecture for growing a space economy utilizing foundational space weather

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