Why join a space race when you can try to make Earth better?
The idea for space stations as a means of climate activism came to fruition far from Aspen. EFCC began in 2019 as a project for refugees in Kenya to become involved with their new environment. Refugees"often have this sense of having no identity or direction, and people have a tendency to look at them as being a burden on the places that they've come to," Phillips explains.
While working on alternatives for refugee housing on remote Lamu Island, about sixty miles from the Somali border, Phillips found the"antithesis of space fantasy narratives," she recalls. There were no cars; everything was moved by donkeys or boats.
EFCC has three basic aspects to its agenda: first, to stay on Earth; second, to enjoy it; and third, to"stop thinking we can torch this planet and then escape to another one," Phillips notes. EFCC has mounted space stations to promote that agenda in
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