We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies.
Rusty SchweickartWe can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.
Rusty SchweickartAn asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
Rusty SchweickartThis whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.
Rusty Schweickart