Exploit and ignore the consequences: A mother of planetary issues

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• 作者：Khaled Moustafa ^{khaled.moustafa@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Environmental sustainability ; Earth mass ; Oil extraction ; Fossil fuel ; Lunar exploration ; Gravitational force
• 刊名：Science of the Total Environment
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：1 July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：557-558
• 期：Complete
• 页码：912-913
• 全文大小：144 K

文摘

Many environmental and planetary issues are due to an exploitation strategy based on exploit, consume and ignore the consequences. As many natural and environmental resources are limited in time and space, such exploitation approach causes important damages on earth, in the sea and maybe soon in the space. To sustain conditions under which humans and other living species can coexist in productive and dynamic harmony with their environments, terrestrial and space exploration programs may need to be based on ‘scrutinize the consequences, prepare adequate solutions and then, only then, exploit’. Otherwise, the exploitation of planetary resources may put the environmental stability and sustainability at a higher risk than it is currently predicted.