Why Humans SHOULDN'T Colonise Space

Should humans leave Earth and colonise space? Antinatalism says no. Here is the antinatalist case against space colonisation.

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00:00 – Intro
00:59 – The Antinatalist Case Against Space Colonisation
09:43 – Worst Case Scenarios
15:04 – Practical Implications
20:06 – Outro

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Keeping Our Eggs in Earth’s Basket – The Anti-natalist Case Against Space Colonisation (Rehan Visser): https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/...

Konrad Szocik:
• The Bioethics of Space Exploration: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
• Feminist Bioethics in Space: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
• Future human space missions and the procreative ethics – between human enhancement and antinatalism: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Astronomical Waste – The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development (Nick Bostrom): https://nickbostrom.com/papers/astron...

On terraforming, wild-animal suffering and the far future (Michael Dello-Iacovo): https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

To seed or not to seed – Estimating the ethical value of directed panspermia (Asher Soryl & Anders Sandberg): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

The Case For Fruit Fly Antinatalism (Daniel Daymoon): https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/p...

Avoiding the Worst – How to Prevent Moral Catastrophe (Tobias Baumann): https://centerforreducingsuffering.or...

 Space colonization and suffering risks: Reassessing the ‘maxipok rule’ (Phil Torres): https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/d9aaad...
• Summary: https://nautil.us/why-we-should-think...
• Response: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Omelas and Space Colonization (Brian Tomasik): https://reducing-suffering.org/omelas...
• Turkish girl, 16, buried alive 'for talking to boys' (Guardian): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/...

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