• On Loving Nonliving Stuff

    Author(s):
    Daniel Capper (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/gd7p-ys27
    Abstract:
    One of the more important things that we can learn from space exploration is how to love lifeless stuff. We generally are taught by our cultures to love life but not be too concerned with nonlife. However, in our present understanding, within the solar system only the Earth has life. If we are to care for places like our amazing moon and be responsible citizens, we therefore must learn to value the moon’s abiotic places for what they are in themselves. Of course, in our space adventures we similarly must care for other lifeless places like the spectacular rings of Saturn. Tibetans exemplify how we better can adore such things that are not alive through their reciprocal community relationships with the mountains among them. This Himalayan respect for peaks can teach us how to love nonliving stuff and thereby properly cherish wonderful locations within our solar system.
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    Pub. Date:
    2022
    Book Title:
    Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration
    Author/Editor:
    James S. J. Schwartz, Linda Billings, and Erika Nesvold
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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