New Paradigm for Mankind: A Primer

In preparation for the April 7th Schiller Institute Conference: Building A World Land-Bridge—Realizing Mankind’s True Humanity, we are posting a must-read article from space pioneer and visionary Krafft Ehricke. In his 1985 paper Lunar Industrialization and Settlement, Ehricke outlined not only the technical outlook, but also the moral one that accompanies the mission to develop the moon and beyond. What might Selenopolis look like? What are the new principles of Seleconomics? From Ehricke,

“Taken together, these factors assure continuing growth-as long as we have an open world, and do not shy away from overcoming our problems by technology and by our own development. I must emphasize that technology is not the solution to our shortcomings. The solution is that we must grow and mature. But technology can make that easier. By contrast, a no-growth philosophy, which asks humans to live with less of everything, can regress us to the Middle Ages because a dog-eat-dog fight is bound to break out under such conditions. We have come too far. We have to go on. Life shows us that technological advancement is the road to take. But based on these technological advances, our species and civilization must advance also. Then we can proceed.”

Read the paper Lunar Industrialization and Settlement