Loading...Space And Sustainability Should Align
With more investors focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, satellite imagery may provide them with key data on the environmental impact of company activities. Satellite applications include monitoring greenhouse-gas emissions from companies and regions, helping utilities optimize renewable energy infrastructure and mining data to project how climate change could affect particular industries.
“ESG is becoming table stakes for businesses, and satellite imagery helps fill the data gap,” says Jonas. “Developing technologies from both public and private companies could offer a new channel of information for investors interested in pursuing both sustainability and returns.”
Idea from https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/space-economy-investment-themes
Why improve people’s lives when you can instead be a captain of industry and hero of the galaxy?
Why didn’t any of the rich-list save anyone else? The problem isn’t just with ego, but with another sin, gluttony.
Even if they haven’t yet aligned, they sure are coming together nicely in time. Reading this from a while back, the planet won’t mind us leaving it, if we help heal the zounds we inflicted.
I had to google it….
zounds (interj.)
1600, oath of surprise or anger, altered from (by) God’s wounds!, in reference to the wounds of Christ on the Cross. “One of the innumerable oaths having reference to Christ’s passion” [Century Dictionary]
Ironic that our appetite for more/better communications (via satellites) paid for the early space economy. And that the internet and communications are what we give poorer countries, instead of food. Now they know why their kids are dying in pollution and disease at least.
I agree with your comment but noted that it’s also odd how sustainability, when mentioned in the same context as space, now refers to moving the crap we spread around the earth over the last 100 years, rather than sustainability of the planet and people themselves. Funny old, knackered world.