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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Is the Moon the world's next flashpoint? – with A.C. Grayling and Alex Andreou
Description: The Moon is packed with precious resources – silicon for microchips, manganese for batteries, and titanium for missiles. As private companies, Japan, China, Russia, India and others rush to claim our lunar neighbour, will they look after humanity’s interests or their own? And what happens when these big, belligerent actors collide? A.C. Grayling, writer, broadcaster and philosophy professor, has just published Who Owns the Moon? In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space. He talks to Alex Andreou about exploration, exploitation and trouble on the next frontier.Buy Who Owns the Moon? through our affiliate booksh...