{"id":56939,"date":"2026-03-23T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=56939"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:49:14","slug":"jbis-079-01-0021","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/product\/jbis-079-01-0021\/","title":{"rendered":"We the Living: There is absolutely nothing wrong with the species-level perspective on space settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><b>Milan M. Cirkovic<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2026.079.0021<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>DOI <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.59332\/jbis-079-01-0021\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.59332\/jbis-079-01-0021<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Recent debates about human space activities in general, and space colonization and settlement in particular, have been accompanied by a panoply of rhetorical maneuvers and language games. An egregious example is repeated stigmatizing of space advocates and enthusiasts for using the first-person plural \u00e4\u00f3\u00ecwe\u00e4\u00f3\u009d to denote the scientific reality of humankind as a species. Here I show that this is not just a rhetorical strategy, but encapsulates a wider malady: a retreat from the universal, cosmopolitan, inclusive, humanist ideals of the Enlightenment and in more extreme versions, retreat from scientific realism and evolutionary worldview as well. Space advocates should not cede any linguistic or ethical grounds to skeptics deploying this rhetorical ploy, since it carries no cognitive or argumentative weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Keywords: <\/b>Existential Risk, Space Settlement, Human Spaceflight, NewSpace, Space Skepticism, Rhetoric, Postmodernism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":56879,"template":"","meta":[],"pwb-brand":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3911],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-56939","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-2026-papers","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brands":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/56939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pwb-brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pwb-brand?post=56939"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=56939"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=56939"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=56939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}