SPACE RENAISSANCE [SRI] The 18th SDG: “Space for All - Civilian Space Development and Life Beyond Earth” - Sign the SRI proposal!
Dear SRI Friends and Supporters,
following up the last bullet point of the Final Resolution of the 2021 SRI 3rd World Congress, our campaign to add an 18th SDG to the U.N. 2030 Agenda is moving the first steps.
The 18th SDG: "Space for All - Civilian Space Development and Life Beyond Earth"
Here's an executive summary bullet points about the urgency and opportunity of an 18th SDG:
1. Sustainability - Space needs to enter the equation of sustainability. The U.N. 2030 Agenda has 17 SDGs, and none of them even mention Space.
2. Resolving conflicts among different SDGs - If limited to Earth's boundaries, the SDGs related to energy, industrial development, both social and economic growth will conflict with the environmental SDGs.
3. Making all 17 SDGs truly sustainable - Only an 18th SDG, fostering civilian space development, will make all of the other 17 SDGs truly feasible and sustainable, assuring achievement in social growth while allowing planet Earth's green lungs and seas to regenerate themselves.
4. Fixing the 2030 Agenda obsolescence - The U.N. 2030 Agenda was conceived during the previous space age, when Earth to orbit transportation costs were very high. Reusable launch vehicles helped reduce such costs, and will reduce them further. The 2030 Agenda should be updated accordingly.
5. The 18th SDG title - We propose that an 18th SDG should be added: "Space for All - Civilian Space Development and Life Beyond Earth".
6. Social urgency of civilian space development - Initiating civilian space development before 2030 is most urgent. Humanity could fail the historical "launch window", should Earthlings keep on growing up, or even worse our civilization to implode, in the closed environment of Planet Earth.
7. Higher priority for some issues - The 18th SDG should promote higher priorities for some essential issues, such as:
- 100% reusable, safe and ergonomic space transportation vehicles, for passengers and cargo
- Protecting life and health from sun and cosmic radiations in space
- Start experimenting with simulated gravity in space
- Green environments (vegetable life) in space habitats
- Orbital debris recovery and reuse for geo-lunar space industrialization
- Moon and asteroid mining, to produce fuel in space
- Space based solar power (SBSP)
- Producing food in space
8. Benefits of expanding Civilization into outer space - Civilization expansion into outer space, space settlements and industrialization – starting in Earth Orbit, the Geo-Lunar space region, Earth and Moon Orbits, and Lagrange Libration Points – will, at least:
- Relaunch the global economy to grow at an unprecedented pace, reversing the global crisis that's gripping us since many decades in the closed Earth's environment.
- Assure the material base for development of trillions of people in the solar system, transforming Planet Earth into a beautiful natural garden.
- Reduce the reasons for resource wars and conflicts, and help achieve peace on Earth.
- Give birth to the greatest cultural (r)evolution in human history so far, by developing thousands of communities in the Solar System.
- Progressively relieve planet Earth's environment from the burden of human industrial development.
- Dramatically enhance of scientific knowledge of our solar system, exploring different planets environments to explore and comparing them to Earth's environment, increasing our capabilities to understand planetary ecosystems, and to experiment where humans and the terrestrial biome will be the first biological things.
9. The role of space advocacy - Space advocacy has a key role in addressing the above issues. We warmly invite all the space advocacy organizations to engage with the public to help explain why and how space development and further exploration can serve as the main pillar of truly sustainable development on Earth, as well as outside our home planet.
10. Clearing space into daily political debates – The space advocacy movement should break the thin but hitherto impermeable diaphragm that keeps space topics out of the general political discussions.
11. To save civilization and refresh Earth's environment - Civilian space development should be presented as a major sustainable enterprise, as well as a strong factor undertaking that ultimately could save civilization and refresh planet Earth's environment.
12. To talk on popular generalist media - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson provide practical outreach, with their entrepreneurial initiatives. Yet, space development also needs some widely recognized social and political speakers, to engage with popular media.
13. To spread the essential philosophical and political concepts – The 18th SDG campaign is a powerful mean to outreach to the public at large, spreading essential philosophical and political concepts related to space enterprise. Space development is not just a pursuit for wealthy pioneers and super-powers. It clearly is a vital enterprise for humanity.
All of our projects and initiatives in 2023 will be either focused on the 18thSDG or include it in their agenda. Please also stay tuned on this page, where we are listing our programme and other space events on Planet Earth.
It is time to take action. We invite all of the sincere space humanists to sign our pledge, and to help collecting signatures!
Let's use this page, presenting the aim of the 18th SDG proposal:
https://spacerenaissance.space/the-18th-sustainable-development-goal/
On the page, you can sign the proposal, and invite friends and colleagues to sign.
Let's post the link on our personal social channels: we can go viral, collecting thousands of signatures!
That will be very much helpful, when we will make official steps, to sustain our proposal at U.N., UNOOSA and COPUOS.
SIGN THE 18th SDG PROPOSAL!
Ad Astra!
Adriano
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