Jeff Bezos offers a vision of flying through space colonies with our own wings. But is that the best way to save the human race?
Jeff Bezos sees space as a place where the weather could be like Maui, and, without gravity, where people would “fly with their own wings.”
By Abigail Higgins
Jeff Bezos has been warning us for years that humans can’t sustain our current rate of consumption.
“What happens when unlimited demand meets finite resources? The answer is incredibly simple: rationing,” Bezos said in a 2019 speech, where he announced that his space travel company Blue Origin had developed a lunar lander. “It would lead to the first time where your grandchildren and their grandchildren would have worse lives than you did — that’s a bad path.”
Bezos may not be the best person to be lecturing about overconsumption in a world of finite resources. His wealth ballooned by $86 billion during a global pandemic, reaching a current net worth of $212 billion. He owns the Washington Post, a $65 million private jet, and so many homes — in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Washington State, and Texas — that he’s the 25th largest landowner in the United States.
Perhaps the tycoon of unprecedented proportions would be more concerned about solving Earth’s imminent shortages —…
