34. Howard Bloom: The Infrastructure of Imagination: Garden the Solar System, Green the Galaxy

In this episode, Senior Fellow Peter Garretson interviews best-selling author Howard Bloom and founder of the Space Development Steering Committee. They discuss fundamental motivations for developing and settling space—humanity's destiny—and the roles that NASA and the Space Force are called to play to support that purpose. They focus on how to balance near-term threats and priorities vs. the power of Cislunar to determine the future. Howard discusses the opportunity cost of the current expandable architecture, and the possibilities suggested by reusable systems like a SpaceX’s Starship. He ends with an urgent plea to the Administration to get Starship flying without delay.
About Howard:
https://www.howardbloom.net/about-howard-bloom/
Screw Sustainability
https://lifeboat.com/ex/screw.sustainability
China Silk Road vs America's Platinum Highway in the Sky
https://theentrepreneurmagazine.com/2021/03/19/chinas-new-silk-road-vs-americas-platinum-highway-in-the-sky-by-howard-bloom/
https://othjournal.com/2018/09/24/chinas-new-silk-road-vs-americas-platinum-highway-in-the-sky/
Garden the Solar System - Green the Galaxy
https://kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/adaptive/presentations/Garden%20the%20solar%20system-Green%20the%20Galaxy%204-23-2014.pdf
https://vimeo.com/67413529
Humanity's Destiny
https://pjmedia.com/culture/david-swindle/2013/06/17/humanitys-destiny-howard-bloom-garden-the-solar-system-green-the-galaxy-n145825
Howard's Books and Articles
https://www.howardbloom.net/
The Space Development Steering Committee
http://spacedevelopmentsteeringcommittee.org/
The 2 billion dollar Moon Prize
https://www.newsweek.com/one-small-step-toward-2-billion-moon-prize-opinion-1476945
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/19/newt-gingrich-michael-jackson-moon-1466853
The Howard Bloom Institute
https://howardbloom.institute/