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The Limits of Jeff Bezos' Winged Space Utopia

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Jeff Bezos sees space as a place where the weather could be like Maui, and, without gravity, where people would "fly with their own wings."

Jeff Bezos unveiling the "Blue Moon" lunar lander on May 9, 2019. Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images Jeff Bezos has been warning us for years that humans can't sustain our current rate of consumption. "What happens when unlimited demand meets finite resources? The answer is incredibly simple: rationing," Bezos said in a 2019 speech, where he announced that his space travel company Blue Origin had developed a lunar lander. "It would lead to the first time where your grandchildren and their grandchildren would have worse lives than you did — that's a bad path." Bezos…

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