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Byron Williston is Professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo. His next book, Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present, will be published in the fall of 2020 by Oxford University Press. He tweets @ClimatePhilo.
Contrary to the boosterism of billionaires, the need for space colonization must be argued for, not assumed. And the arguments aren’t good.
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