Ariel Ekblaw
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4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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This time, I think, will be profoundly different because we have an economy that's fueled by these companies that you mentioned, making it possible for truly, like if there are people listening to this podcast that have kids, for your kids to commute to space for work in the next 10 years.
Artemis Accords, yep.
Yes, that's true.
One of the things we've thought about in the context of policy for the moon, for example, is how do we avoid a mill town and the exploitativeness of a mill town?
So if you remember mill towns where the company store basically owns all of the employees and they're exploitative, it's hard for them to leave.
You can imagine...
Some company operating on the moon decides that they own your air because they transported you there as an employee.
And you can't just walk outside and go home.
You'd have to be dependent on them to get back to Earth.
There's all these different potentials that, you know, the Summer 4 article and comment hits on.
And I think one of the jobs of creators of this technology like us is to say, let's work on...
some combination of technological solutions that mitigate some of the risks like space debris or green propulsion for the carbon footprint.
Let's also work on policy frameworks and regulatory frameworks that seed in some of the values that we care about in an open and free society.
We don't have to give up and say, oh man, it's just going to be a gold rush and we're going to let the moon be chopped up and be treated in a way that
seeds these dystopian futures.
It really is a moment to say, this is our responsibility.
This is the time.
Let's do some, you know, regulatory and policy work to try to put a better future in place.
And I think that that is something we certainly work on at Aurelia Institute.
There are amazing groups like Open Lunar Foundation that are also looking at this.
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