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Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. Recalling the space race between the US and the USSR in the 1960s Cold War, Mr Murphy said the battle continues into the 21st century – this time with private industry at the forefront. When you venture out into the sea, you end up with war ships that are Navy fighting vessels and when you venture up into the air, you end up with fighter jets.
Not only did he identify that the space race will be tripartite, he convincingly pointed out that the acrimony will eventually classify into two major camps respectively led by the US and China, surrounded by scattered weathervanes if not rogue nations. On the other hand, we have future conflicts and geopolitical tensions. Marshall has always been highly adept in this field and he runs through some hypothetical scenarios between the big three. Based on the previous and current history, some of them do feel quite plausible. A narrow fly-past of a western moon-base and a Chinese satellite that sabotages others in its radius. Our push to explore the cosmos will likely bring both new advancements and greater anxiety among the masses. Ley, David, and Marwyn S. Samuels, eds. Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems. Chicago: Maaroufa, 1978. Now his sights have turned to the skies as his new book, The Future of Geography:How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World, predicts how society will grow with the geopolitical space race in the near future.I loved the first section about the history of our understanding of space. From Ancient Greece, The Abbasids to The Renaissance up to the space race it was all fascinating when all put in its context. I also quite enjoyed the China chapter and Marshals writing style is always digestible, informative and a pleasure to read.
Geography is unfair,” Ian Morris writes, and if “geography is destiny”, as he also contends, then this is a recipe for a world in which the strong remain strong and the weak remain weak. Geopoliticians excel at explaining why things won’t change. They’re less adept at explaining how things do. There is a growing number of countries and companies, which are trying to elbow their way into the ‘New World’ of space exploration. ‘While China, the USA and Russia are the three main players in space, many others are looking to increase their presence.’ Jeff Bezos has founded ‘Blue Origin’, Richard Branson has Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk has Space X. In addition, there are a host of countries from France, Germany, Japan, Australia, India, the UK, Israel, Iran, India and the UAE, who are all vying for projects, partnerships and prestige in a crowded marketplace. And sadly, this is how space is now being viewed- not as a frontier of hope and expansion for the species, but as an opportunity to exploit and abuse resources. It appears that the lessons of the past have not been learned. I used that sort of language just to get us used to the idea that it isn’t really any more ‘out there’. The Future of Geography, however, doesn’t just explore the future of space exploration but explores our earliest expeditions and the growing competition between the USA and USSR who based their own expeditions on the pioneering engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, whose equations helped the USSR dominate space throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Daniels, Stephen. “Arguments for a Humanistic Geography.” In The Future of Geography. Edited by R. J. Johnston, 143–158. London: Methuen, 1985.These were hopes, though, not yet realities. The cold war, which divided the planet into trade blocs and military alliances, kept leaders’ eyes fixed on maps. Children learned to read maps, too, thanks to the 1957 French board game La Conquête du Monde – the conquest of the world – that the US firm Parker Brothers sold widely under the name Risk. It had a 19th-century ambience, with cavalries and antiquated artillery pieces, but given that superpowers were still carving up the map, it was also uncomfortably relevant.
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