How to Reduce Orbital Debris in Space

In this episode of 80k After Hours, Fin Moorhouse reads his problem profile on space governance.

Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.

If you want to hear more from Fin, you should check out his podcast Hear This Idea, which showcases new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. And you can see a bunch of other things he's up to on his website.

You might also want to check out these relevant pieces:

• Space governance is important, tractable and neglected — Tobias Baumann
• An Informal Review of Space Exploration
• How cost-effective are efforts to detect near-Earth-objects? — Toby Newberry

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Producer: Keiran Harris
Audio mastering: Beppe Rådvik and Ben Cordell