Cosmopolitan Approach to the Issue of Orbital Debris

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86555-9_10" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86555-9_10</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86555-9_10" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-86555-9_10</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cosmopolitan Approach to the Issue of Orbital Debris

Original language description

The following chapter treats orbital debris as an environmental issue that poses a threat to sustainability of outer space due to the so-called Kessler effect, a chain reaction causing small debris to tear apart large objects in a cascading event. Proposing to elaborate on the concept of responsibility for orbital debris removal and look for analogies in climate change law, it shifts focus from the material damage which was caused to a space object to outer space pollution as such. It argues that orbital debris pollution requires a cosmopolitan framework, embodied in the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR). Cosmopolitanism is understood with regard to Kant’s concept of ius cosmopoliticum as the foundation for global society; Kant speaks about humankind entering a universal community in which if one violates laws in a certain part of the world, this violation is experienced everywhere. In reference to Kant’s categorical imperative, the chapter elaborates on Burke’s “global categorical imperative” that puts actions of international actors into the perspective of their global causalities and consequences. Orbital debris – a series of actions with global consequences – is interpreted as “a technology of the end of the world” (Lindberg S, Technologies of the end of the world. In: Schuback, MSC, Lindberg S (eds) The end of the world: contemporary philosophy and art. Future perfect: images of the time to come in philosophy, politics and cultural studies. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), a technology with the potential to annihilate certain elements of the Earth and its orbit. The chapter argues that just like the invention of the atomic bomb, the rise of technologies and actions contributing to climate change and orbital debris pollution has to be assessed from a cosmopolitan perspective, taking into account both intergenerational and intragenerational equity, the rights of current, and future generations. In this regard, the CBDR principle – stretching responsibility across space and time – is described as the embodiment of cosmopolitanism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL01000181" target="_blank" >TL01000181: A multidisciplinary analysis of planetary defense from asteroids as the key national policy ensuring further flourishing and prosperity of humankind both on Earth and in Space</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Governance of Emerging Space Challenges : The Benefits of a Responsible Cosmopolitan State Policy

ISBN

978-3-030-86554-2

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

179-191

Number of pages of the book

272

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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