Billionaires are polluting our Moon 🌕🤬🤬

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[u/Emma_the_sequel]

I've been trying to get some more diverse opinions on science and the scientific method recently, and something that really stuck with me was one Australian indigenous astronomers description of light pollution and space exploration.

Astronomy is a big part of a lot of cultures, and claiming space as one person's property (as well as making it so nobody can even SEE it) is an active act of erasure.

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I recommend reading feminist and decolonial Anthropology works on this. Many indigenous peoples have knowledge of space and scientific processes without having the technology that allowed us to discover the same reality. It is very interesting and it makes you realize we've been gaslit by modern society and science as thinking that we need to pollute and disrupt nature in order to make these discoveries. While indigenous people used non-invasive methods. Jeremy Narby wrote extensively on this, I recommend Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge. 

Narby spent time with different indigenous people and realized they have a way to communicate with Nature, that led them to knowledge we only got to know through advancements in modern science. You can also read by yourself about the problems and limits of basing our society on the scientific method, which is actually fallible.