Webcast Details:
Environmental Ethics of Exploring and Living in Space
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
7:00 p.m. (mountain daylight time)
Summary: What ethical choices face us as we extend the human presence in space? Should we worry about polluting or disturbing lifeless worlds? Who owns other worlds? What are the laws out there? In this discussion moderated by David Grinspoon, PhD, the Museum invites you to consider with scientists, astronauts, ethicists, and policy makers the ethical and political implications of human space activities.
Speakers:
- Russell “Rusty” Schweickart, retired astronaut and chairman of the B612 Foundation, which is devoted to protecting the Earth from future asteroid impacts
- Patty Limerick, PhD, historian and chair of the Center of the American West at University of Colorado, author, and MacArthur Fellow
- Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author, whose literary science fiction explores themes of ecology, sociology, and economic and social justice
- Robert Frodeman, philosopher specializing in environmental ethics, chair Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas