Editing Space colonization (section)

====Expansion with fewer negative consequences====
{{Further|Holocene extinction}}

Expansion of humans and technological progress has usually resulted in some form of environmental devastation, and destruction of [[ecosystem]]s and their accompanying [[wildlife]]. In the past, expansion has often come at the expense of displacing many [[indigenous peoples]], the resulting treatment of these peoples ranging anywhere from encroachment to genocide. Because space has no known life, this need not be a consequence, as some space settlement advocates have pointed out.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.space-settlement-institute.org/meaning.html| title=The Meaning of Space Settlement| publisher=Space Settlement Institute| access-date=5 September 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141003151529/http://www.space-settlement-institute.org/meaning.html| archive-date=3 October 2014| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Savage, Marshall (1992, 1994). ''[[The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps]]''. Little, Brown. {{ISBN|0-316-77163-5}}</ref> However, on some bodies of the Solar System, there is the potential for extant native lifeforms and so the negative consequences of space colonization cannot be dismissed.<ref>See for example, the work of Dr. Alan Marshall in Alan Marshall (1993) '[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-5930.1993.tb00078.x Ethics and the Extraterrestrial Environment]', ''Journal of Applied Philosophy'', Vol. 10, No 2, pp227-237; Alan Marshall (1994) 'Martians Beware', ''New Zealand Science Monthly'', December 1994 issue; Alan Marshall (1997) 'Extraterrestrial Environmentalism', ''Australian Science'', Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter issue, pp. 25–27. July 1997; and "Cosmic Preservationist", The Word: ''[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17723765-100-the-word-cosmic-preservationist/ New Scientist],'' January 4th, 2003 issue.</ref>

Counterarguments state that changing only the location but not the logic of exploitation will not create a more sustainable future.<ref name="Yun">{{cite web |first=Joon |last=Yun |website=Worth.com |title=The Problem With Today's Ideas About Space Exploration. |date=2 January 2020 
|url=https://www.worth.com/is-space-the-next-frontier-for-the-same-old-story-of-imperialism/ |access-date=28 June 2020}}</ref>