Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-leave-planet-going-135535064.html
Gerard K. O’Neill Memorial Award for Space Settlement Advocacy, and our chat demonstrated why he was given the award." data-reactid="18">Bezos had just received the nonprofit society’s Gerard K. O’Neill Memorial Award for Space Settlement Advocacy, and our chat demonstrated why he was given the award.
The way Bezos sees it, the imperative for space settlement won’t come from a sudden terrestrial catastrophe, but from the realization that we have to expand beyond our home planet if we are to preserve it.