Do You Think We Can Do a Good Job of Stewardship in Space?

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Noel King: We need to recruit ampathy across humanity and persuade every person to embrace stewardship as if our lives depended on it. Do you think we can do a decent job of it in space? You know, as an evangelist in this whole area, man, i have to believe the answers yes. And it's not too late to do something. I want to empower people with knowledge and awareness,. Maybe even find ways of coming into their homes on streaming video and things like that.

Russia blew up a satellite and almost put the International Space Station in a precarious position. Recode’s Rebecca Heilweil explains how humans are trashing space. A space environmentalist (!) explains what cleanup might look like.

Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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