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It does not have to be an innate human right to be something we find valuable & worth protecting. The argument is that astronomy benefits society & that's worth
by dandelany 7y ago
It does not have to be an innate human right to be something we find valuable & worth protecting. The argument is that astronomy benefits society & that's worth fighting for - no need to make it more complicated than that. And your second paragraph is simple whataboutism - the fact that pollution occurs despite us wishing it doesn't has no bearing on the question of radio astronomy vs. internet satellites.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoIt may have no bearing, but it is a useful analogy to understand the problem. You either make life hard for one group of people or another. One thing I don't personally like to hear is when someone calls something a right but society's workarounds are already plenty fine. We have workarounds for polluted water (the citizen must pay), and we have workarounds for terrestrial astronomy (various space telescopes).