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Join SRJC Physics Instructor Lynda Williams and Nuclear Weapons Abolition Expert Jackie Cabasso in a lively and informative presentation and discussion of the scientific, technical, environmental, political, legal and ethical issues of weaponizing space and what you can do to prevent a costly and deadly arms race in outer space and Keep Space for Peace!
Jackie Cabasso has been involved in nuclear disarmament, peace and environmental advocacy at the local, national and international levels for over 25 years. Cabasso is the director of the Western States Legal Foundation
and the North American coordinator of Mayors for Peace.
This event is in celebration of the October 4-10th UN World Space Week and Keep Space for Peace Week of the Global Network and is sponsored by the SRJC Engineering and Physics Department. For more information:
www.space4peace.org
www.worldspaceweek.org
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Space Debris? ASAT Tests? Weapons & War in Space? Fifty years after Sputnik launched the space age, humans are turning space into yet another junk yard, with millions of pieces of man-made debris orbiting the Earth, putting targets both in space and on the ground at risk. One year after China blew up its own satellite on orbit, the US shot down a defunct satellite in space. The world is coming to grips with the urgent need to establish international 'rules of the road' for space debris regulation and mitigation in order to prevent an environmental catastrophe in space or on Earth. What the planet needs now, before it is too late, is an environmental movement in space: Space Ecology.
Read all about the Final Frontier of
Environmentalism in Natural Living Magazine (pdf)!
by Lynda Williams.
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