Dr. Jeffrey Barns

The big questions

The kind of questions this session opens up.

1. Have you ever wondered what it says about us that we may cross the solar system before we have learned to live well on the one planet we have?
2. Is reaching for the stars an escape from our problems, or the clearest proof of what we can do when we decide to?
3. Who should own the sky, and what happens to “the common good” when the frontier becomes a market?
4. When humanity becomes a multi-planet species, what part of ourselves do we most want to bring, and what do we hope to leave behind?