Dr. Dave Webb on space travel, environment and militarism

 

Dr. Dave Webb lives in Leeds, England and is the board convener of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He is an engineer by training. At one time he worked for the British Ministry of Defense (MOD).

For many years Dave served as national chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the UK.

He's been with the Global Network since the late 1990's. He also serves as the webmaster for our website at www.space4peace.org 

In this interview Dave talks about the growing damage to Earth and the orbits around our planet by unrestrained and unregulated launches for 5G and other military applications. Tens of thousands of these mini-satellite launches are punching a larger hole in the ozone layer as well as emitting toxic exhaust during rocket launches. 

He warns about the coming Kessler Syndrome which predicts increasing collisions and creation of more space debris in orbits above the Earth. At some point scientists fear that there will be a cascade of orbital crashes taking out the satellites that bring us GPS, cell phone, Internet banking, weather prediction, air traffic control, cable TV and more. At that point life on Earth could grind to a dark halt.

Dave also talks about the many problems associated with the rapidly expanding network of rocket launch facilities in the UK, the US, and other places like New Zealand and beyond. Usually the locals are promised that the launch sites will be for 'civilian' purposes but in locations like Kodiak, Alaska, Rocket Lab in New Zealand and inside the UK they turn out to be primarily for military uses. One common denominator appears to be the entry of Lockheed Martin.