What do you suppose the environmental impact assessments should be in near future?

Inevitably, we will be colonizing and impacting other planetary bodies, whether for establishing life or drilling/mining.

Today, you can expect on Earth there will be environmental requirements for development in both Western and many under-developed countries. The EU and UN require SEAs, the US requires Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA's). The United Arab Emirates (an oil-based, rapidly developing country), for example, requires both SEAs and Cultural Reviews before extraction or development.

What could be a similar requirement in my story, from somewhat responsible colonizing or extractive collective moving into mining and colonizing operations. I realize this is purely speculative for the next 100 years.

I'd like the focus to be on considerations for the extraction of resources from bodies in this solar system, outside of Earth. And then later, I will be drafting a brief of the environmental agreement for my short novel.

posted over 9 years ago

Mikey‭

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