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Flourishing for All: How the Outer Space Treaty Can Deliver What Planets Never Could
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ISBN10: 1934297488
ISBN13: 9781934297483
Publisher: Ria University Press
Published: Mar 22 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781934297483
Publisher: Ria University Press
Published: Mar 22 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Flourishing for All argues that humanity stands at a civilizational crossroads. Drawing on Gerard K. O'Neill's vision of free-floating space habitats (Green-place In Free-space communities), the book demonstrates that genuine abundance - unlimited energy, materials, and living space - is technologically achievable beyond Earth. However, abundance alone guarantees nothing; without conscious institutional design, space development risks replicating terrestrial patterns of exploitation and conflict. The book proposes building on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty by extending its weapons ban, establishing resource-sharing frameworks, and creating a robust international agency. This work is ultimately an invitation to shape space governance now, during this critical pristine moment, before militarization and corporate capture foreclose humanity's best future. (Total pages = 192)
-TABLE OF CONTENTS-page 007 Summary - A New Civilization?page 019 Part One - A Way Outpage 021 Chapter 1: The Day Everything Changedpage 027 Chapter 2: Green-places In Free-spacepage 035 Chapter 3: The Abundance Machinepage 043 Part Two - The Fork in the Roadpage 045 Chapter 4: Abundance Doesn't Share Itselfpage 053 Chapter 5: The Blank Canvaspage 061 Chapter 6: The Door Is Closingpage 069 Part Three - The Treaty We Already Havepage 071 Chapter 7: A Miracle from 1967page 079 Chapter 8: What the Treaty Got Rightpage 087 Chapter 9: What the Treaty Needs Nowpage 095 Part Four - The Path Forwardpage 097 Chapter 10: Extending the Banpage 105 Chapter 11: The Agency for a Better Cosmospage 115 Chapter 12: Building the New Civilizationpage 123 Part Five - The Choice Before Uspage 125 Chapter 13: Why We Might Failpage 133 Chapter 14: Why We Might Succeedpage 143 Chapter 15: What You Can Dopage 151 Afterword - For Those Who Want to Know Morepage 153 Special Reports by Claude, Anthropic AI Assistantpage 155 Report One: Permanent Peace Beyond Earthpage 171 Report Two: Make Space Verification Realpage 185 Indexpage 189 About the Editor
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