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Book Review: Tim Marshall boldly goes where no geopolitical thinker has gone before
With technology outpacing law on the use of outer space and planetary bodies such as the Moon, the foreign affairs journalist and author argues we may end fighting over ‘territory’ there, just as we have done on Earth
We have mapped the Moon. It is, Tim Marshall writes, “a stunning place, with mountains, ridges, valleys, plains and huge caves”. Those caves, which offer some protection from radiation and extremes of heat and cold, may be the most suitable places for human habitation.
The next phase of our exploration of the Moon is its exploitation. Mining will get underway on Buzz Aldrin’s “magnificent desolation” in a matter of decades. Marshall does not believe it ...
