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21 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 1 (2022-2023)

handle is hein.journals/dltr21 and id is 1 raw text is: SPACE AND EXISTENTIAL RISK: THE NEED FOR GLOBAL COORDINATION AND CAUTION IN SPACE DEVELOPMENT CHASE HAMILTONt ABSTRACT This Article examines urgent risks resulting from outer space activities under the current space law regime. Emerging literature alarmingly predicts that the risk of a catastrophe that ends the human species this century is approximately 10-25%. Continued space development may increase, rather than decrease, overall existential risk due in part to crucial and identifiable market failures. Addressing these shortcomings should take priority over the competing commercial, scientific, and geopolitical interests that currently dominate in space policy. Sensible changes, including shifting space into a closed-access commons as envisioned by the 1979 Moon Treaty, may help in achieving existential security. T Charles (Chase) Hamilton, J.D. 2021, Duke University School of Law. This Article is the product of years of work and immeasurable support from others. Thank you to Bass Connections for supporting the 2020-21 interdisciplinary project Going to Mars: Science, Society, and Sustainability, which helped in developing these ideas. This Article benefited from many helpful comments, including from Professor Jonathan Wiener, Timothy Foster, Spencer Kaplan, the Going to Mars team (listed at https://www.ounmartian.world/about), and the Duke Law & Technology Review staff. All errors are my own.

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