论文标题
简而言之国王:为什么人类太空和解首先引起争议?
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?
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论文摘要
近年来,既有太空计划的复兴,主要是由于私营企业日益增长的兴趣所推动的,而且还出现了对人类太空活动在多个层面的强烈抵抗。这部分是一个更广泛的反启蒙运动时代主义者的体现,在西方其他公共生活的其他部门中可以检测到,部分是对私营部门广泛参与的反应。尽管它仍然没有主导关于太空问题的论述,但空间怀疑是令人惊讶的广泛和分散的现象,从亲启蒙的自由主义者到狂热的“深层生态学”激进主义者到哲学上的悲观主义者到所有颜色的抗议主义者,聚集了从亲启蒙的自由主义者到狂热的“深度生态学”激进主义者到所有颜色的抗议者。然而,到目前为止,很少有积极反对这种文化趋势的宝贵方式。尽管太空工程师和企业家进行“照常业务”,但这种文化气候中隐藏了很多风险,尤其是。如果人们重复(很少充分理解)格言,“政治是文化的下游”。本文将回顾这种大帐篷文化运动中的主要思想,为太空持怀疑态度提供了合理的反对意见,并概述了需要做平衡量表的重要文化和公共构造工作。
Recent years have seen both a revival of space programs, mostly propelled by private industry's increasing interest, but also the emergence of strong resistance to human space activities on several levels. This is partly a manifestation of a wider counter-Enlightenment Zeitgeist, as detectable in other sectors of public life in the West, and partly a reaction against the widespread engagement of the private sector. While it still does not dominate the discourse on space issues, space skepticism is surprisingly wide-ranging and decentralized phenomenon, gathering together heterogeneous strands of thought from pro-Enlightenment liberals to rabid "deep ecology" activists to philosophical pessimists to antiglobalists of all colors. There has been precious little in way of actively opposing this cultural trend so far, however. While space engineers and entrepreneurs conduct their "business as usual", there are plethora of risks hidden in this cultural climate, esp. if one adopts much repeated (and rarely adequately understood) maxim that "politics is downstream of culture." The present article will review major strands of thought within this big tent cultural movement, offer plausible counter-arguments to space skeptics, and outline important cultural and public-outreach work which needs to be done to balance the scales.