For all its purported sobriety, anti-space ideology amounts to an anti-humanist critique that unwittingly embraces a politics of neoliberal austerity while ironically undermining our ability to deal with the manifold ecological and social crises we face.

So I make the left case for space, arguing that space science *is* earth science, *is* social science, and that we cannot combat climate change—and many social challenges as well—without it.

It is a great shame that space-faring has become right-coded, when it is indeed For All Mankind.

Some on the left have reacted against certain space-fanatic billionaires whose names rhyme with pesos and husk by viewing space-faring as an elitist toy, or even ‘settler colonialism’, saying we should stop polluting our planet before we head off to pollute another one.