{"id":113,"date":"2019-06-05T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/?p=113"},"modified":"2019-06-10T01:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T01:07:02","slug":"how-we-choose-to-use-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/how-we-choose-to-use-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"How we choose to use the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The moon<\/a> has always served as an inspiration for humanity, and there are many potential benefits for further exploration of our planet’s rocky satellite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we need to establish guidelines to prevent unethical behavior on the moon, particularly regarding the use of natural resources<\/a> and off-planet labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How humans should interact with space and celestial objects is central to the emerging field of space ethics. It’s something I’ve been involved with since 2015, when I taught my first class on consent for the use of celestial objects at Yale University’s Summer Bioethics Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Human settlement on the moon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some people<\/a> believe establishing human settlements on the moon \u2014 and other bodies \u2014 may help lessen the environmental burden of overpopulation on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the practical issues of survival and maintaining communication<\/a> receive a lot of attention in discussions of moon settlements, the ethical considerations are often overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Mining the moon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The moon is already being considered<\/a> as a mining site<\/a>, or a base of operations for asteroid mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with all mining projects on Earth, there are concerns<\/a> about environmental sustainability and whether it is appropriate for mining corporations to profit from the commercialisation of natural resources in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Medical research on the moon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is talk of the potential to 3D print organs in zero gravity<\/a> on board the International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3D printing organs on the moon, where gravity is one-sixth that on Earth, could be the next step in addressing the shortage of organs available for transplant. Then there’s the possibility of other medical research on the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are strict regulations for medical research in most countries on Earth, and experiments on the ISS are done under the watch of the station’s partners<\/a>. But there is no global system in place to review whether proposed medical studies on the moon are ethically acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The moon has always served as an inspiration for humanity, and there are many potential benefits for further exploration of our planet’s rocky satellite. But we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-universe"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}