Our future and the earth itself are in danger from pollution, global warming, climate change and a looming energy crisis. The energy crisis will lead to a political crisis and continual energy wars. In addition we are discovering very real mega dangers from asteroid strikes and supervolcanos. Space technology in general and colonizing the moon in particular, as a first step into space, have the potential to mitigate and/or eliminate these dangers and guarantee a human future. The objective of this work is to connect the populations of those concerned with the earth with the space scientists and visionaries who may have the means to mitigate these threats; ...and to bring this issue before the general public.

There is no guarantee of a human future. There is no guarantee that the earth will remain capable of supporting our rapidly growing numbers and the demands we are making on the environment. Global warming is real, abrupt climate change is possible and they are energy problems. By the year 2050, to maintain our lifestyles, to permit the third world to develop, we will will need three times the present primary energy and it will have to be three times as clean. There are no earthly technologies now online or capable of coming on line in time that can fulfill these needs.

The sun has been bathing the earth with energy for four and a half billion years. An extremely small fraction of that energy has been captured in fossil fuels. In little more than a century, we've used up nearly half of that bank of energy. We've wasted it, blown it into the atmosphere, and now we're choking on our own gasses.

Fossil fuel power is destroying the environment and threatening our ability to survive in a number of ways; both directly in terms of earth-altering events and, also, secondarily, in the conflicts engendered by the fact that this precious commodity, vital to the economies of the Developed World, is, to a great part present as finite, non- renewable resources in the Undeveloped World. Our past and present conflicts, to a great extent are over energy resources which are directly related to personal and national wealth, health and well-being.

Earth-based renewables comprise only 1% of our power needs, are dispersed and incapable of the necessary growth. Nuclear fission presents a clear and present critical danger and needs to be replaced as soon as possible. Although conservation is very important, it alone, cannot solve the problem.

There are two and a half technologies capable of providing abundant, clean, renewable energy and they are all based in space, they are: Space Solar Power, Lunar Solar Power and Nuclear Fusion powered by helium3 harvested from Lunar regolith; i.e. moondust.

Space Solar takes advantage of the sun's total energy flux, eight times that on the surface of a spinning, cloudy earth. However, at a chemical rocket launch cost of $10,000 a kilo to orbit, only the potential of the "Space Elevator" makes this possible.