SPACE JUNK

Human Waste is Confining Us to Our Own Planet

It isn’t surprising is it?

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Humanity isn’t content with contaminating our home planet with waste that’s simply chucked away in landfills.

Earth’s ozone layer having to contend with endless dangerous and harmful gases which are damaging its ability to protect us from harmful radiation.

Topping the list off with toxic gases polluting the world from those internal combustion engines we drive around.

As Jimmy Cricket said, “and there’s more…,” now we are leaving our junk up there in orbit, trapping ourselves down on the planet.

You’re right.

It’s not funny.

The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said.

A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination in late October determined that urgent action was necessary and called for a comprehensive shared database of orbital objects as well as an international framework to track and manage them.

More than 14,000 satellites including some 3,500 inactive surround the globe in low…