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A discarded SpaceX rocket is hurtling toward the moon—but it’s not an accident. It’s a preview of how our cheap-space future will turn the cosmos into a dump. This article argues that we’re exporting Earth’s pollution habits to the stars before we even live there, and calls for urgent action before it’s too late.
Everyone’s focused on the engineering challenges of building a lunar base — radiation, dust, life support. But the real bottleneck isn’t technical. It’s institutional. No existing governance structure can sustain a 30-year commitment across political cycles, economic downturns, and CEO whims. The Moon base isn’t a rocket problem. It’s a commitment problem. And it’s a stress test for whether humanity can solve collective action problems at scale.