Chris Hadfield
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But if we wait for everything to be perfect, we'll never do anything.
And we have to somehow do the amazing things while allowing for the imperfections of human behavior.
Right.
Well, it's much like how can you be a climate activist and invest in some other industry?
Of course, none of the space industries are based in space.
All of the industry and investing happens here on Earth.
And so if you look at a company, for example, like GHGSAT,
GHG stands for greenhouse gas.
And what they developed is a really clever little sensor that specifically looks for the gases like methane that contribute most to changes in the chemistry of our atmosphere and therefore the greenhouse effect that leads to global warming.
And GHGSat is a very successful company.
And
And they're leading the world.
And what they do is they orbit the world and constantly, 24-7, look for unknown sources of big methane leaks and then inform the person that owns the pipeline or the plant or whatever.
There's a company like Planet that has hundreds of satellites up that are imaging the world down to very fine resolution every day.
And they do a lot of what you would have to call altruistic work to try and
let everybody see the actual health of our planet and what's going on.
And so it's a big enough industry, multi, multi-billion dollar industry, that there's lots of different areas in it that you can choose to support by investing in certain companies.
I'm a semi-autonomous rover myself.
Yeah.
One of the first ones you touched on, Whitney, which is reusable rockets.