The Ethics of Mining the Moon - Dr. Erik Persson - #31

Art of the Question · Jun 25, 2026 · 1h 20m · transcript

Erik Persson is a Swedish philosopher, an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lund University and co-director of its Space Humanities Lab, where his work focuses on the ethics of space exploration. He wrote his doctoral dissertation in environmental ethics and has also studied astrobiology and astronomy, which led him to ask whether the principles we apply to the environment here on Earth can be extended beyond it. His research deals with the moral questions raised by asteroid and lunar mining, planetary protection, terraforming, and the long-term settlement of Mars, and he…