Our Future: Will it be a Space Age or a Stone Age?
"Either way, through ignorance or consciousness, planetary exploration has forced us to recognize the challenge of how we will balance population, fossil resources, sustainable resources, and consumerist economies over the next 50 and 100 years, and through what socioeconomic frameworks we will eventually expand our culture beyond Earth."
Dr. William K. Hartmann, The Planetary Science Institute, 2004
Impact of Space Activities upon Society