THE NEW WORLD ON MARS

A fascinating and enticing vision of the utopian New World that Robert Zubrin believes could and should be created on the Red Planet Martin Rees The world s leading expert on the human settlement of Mars explains what Martian societies will look like sooner than we think Within a few years humans will be able to voyage to Mars SpaceX is at the forefront of companies already building fleets of spaceships to make interplanetary travel as affordable as Old World passage to America to the then New World We will settle the red planet transforming its raw materials into resources and tackling the challenges that await us creating a new frontier for humankind Dr Robert Zubrin explains how populous Martian city states will emerge producing their own air water food power and more How they must be beautiful to attract settlers and what that might look like How the primary exports are unlikely to be material goods but intellectual products created by a technically adept population in a frontier environment where people will be forced to innovate including GMOs robotics AI and power production Zubrin even predicts the red planet s customs social relations and government of the people by the people for the people with inalienable individual rights t