Scientists: We Need to Protect the Solar System from Space Mining

A  group of scientists want to declare much of the solar system to be official “space wilderness” in order to protect it from space mining. As The Guardian reports, the proposal calls for more than 85 percent of the solar system to be protected from human development.

“If we don’t think about this now, we will go ahead as we always have, and in a few hundred years we will face an extreme crisis, much worse than we have on Earth now,” Martin Elvis, senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge , Massachusetts,  and lead author, told The Guardian. “Once you’ve exploited the solar system, there’s nowhere left to go.”

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