The Guardian
Sep 30, 2018 - 11 min
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The plutocrat space race is not serious. The billionaire battle to conquer outer space intensified this week as Richard Branson visited low Earth days before Jeff Bezos. But are they really trying to escape climate change? Science writer Sim Kern argues that the rich escaping Earth for a space utopia is merely a trope in fiction in this lifetime.