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Life Support Systems

The Planetary Life Support Systems are the principal open-science research themes supporting the InterPlanetary Project. Our exploration of these themes will help us reason through the present to discuss planetary futures, and thereby allow for the creation of comparative or counterfactual views of life (on earth, and beyond).

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What is the best operating system to run a planet? Who governs? Who owns? Who rewards and punishes?

How can we evolve law and regulation to reflect the larger systems within which we live?

What can the regulation of terrestrial ecosystems teach us about our opportunities and limitations as a species in stewarding each other and the earth? In stewarding other planets?

Can we learn and teach fundamentally new social norms?

What are the rights of non-human species and ecosystems?

How many rules do we really need?

What are you optimizing when you think about laws? Our own behavior? Maximum benefit to the society?

How can we minimize extreme events, creating long term stability and order?

How can we universalize legal benefits linguistically or symbolically?

What responsibilities and rights exist with regard to our interactions with planetary systems?

What does policy and regulation that reflects relationship, rather than ownership, even look like?

 

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