Foreword
Dr. Paul Stephen Dempsey
Tomlinson Professor of Global Governance in Air and Space Law
Director, Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University
Stephen Hawking observed: “It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species. Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of” [1].
Survival is a primordial instinct. We, as a species, in relatively brief time, have moved from being tree primates, to hunting primates, to farming primates, to industrial primates, and now technological primates. Homo sapiens gradually are coming to the collective realization ...
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