Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine an entire industry.
The damage caused by the space sector is proportional to its ambitions, and therefore potentially stratospheric. It has been known since the 1990s that rocket exhaust gases emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere as they rise into orbit destroy the ozone layer.
The billionaire space race: the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s misguided obsession with growth
