Persuasive Essay On Asteroids

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Earth is at risk of losing all of it’s fresh water and rare metals. People have become very accustomed towards the availability of resources at their disposal that they do not realize that very soon these resources will run out. Earth’s most valuable resources are being abused in order to provide for the entire population that it currently holds. This problem needs to be resolved before it is too late. Recently, scientists and astronomers have discovered that these resources are actually located on asteroids all around Earth and are far more abundant. Asteroids have been found to have high amounts of metals, including iron, nickel, and even platinum, and also have large quantities of fresh water. The idea of mining or collecting resources from …show more content…

The European country of Luxembourg, one of the largest satellite manufacturers in the world, has pledged the American asteroid mining companies, such as Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources, that it will invest two hundred and twenty seven million dollars to help grow the entire industry. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg also pursue lines of business to revolve more around exploring space and gathering resources from asteroids. The United States government has also started creating bills concerning this issue. The U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, formally the Asteroids Act, protects the rights of anyone or any company extracting resources from space by allowing whoever took the resources has full property over it since nothing is claimed in space. Many different countries’ leaders around the world are starting to discuss these problems at meetings. One in particular, the Off-Earth Mining Forum, is a giant meeting of world leaders, scientists, and engineers which occurred in Australia in the November of 2015. The overall effects of asteroid mining are overwhelmingly positive and almost all the pros outweigh the cons. First off, asteroid mining is super clean and eco-friendly. Since the mining is done in space, there are absolutely no ecosystems being harmed during the process, unlike on Earth where the environment does get harmed through mining. When metals and minerals get processed on Earth, the entire process pollutes the air, water, and soil. However in space there is absolutely nothing that can be polluted or harmed with this process. Through the gathering of space resources, the resources already on Earth can be conserved instead of being abused into

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