Space Development and Its Threats to Global South Countries
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https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v36i2.250Keywords:
Global South, Outer space governance, Philosophy of Technology, Structural inequality, EthicAbstract
This paper acknowledges the ethical value of Luca Lo Sapio’s “Positive Cosmic Redundancy Principle and the Moral Value of Becoming a Multiplanetary Species,” but argues that its framework overlooks potential threats to Global South countries. As reusable carrier rocket technology lowers the cost of space development, the monopoly of launch capabilities by a few entities risks exacerbating, rather than alleviating, structural inequalities on Earth. To address this, we propose additions to the “Criteria” section of the principle, aimed at ensuring that the process of becoming a multi-planetary species genuinely includes the Global South and prevents space development from becoming a new driver of inequality.
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