human condition on planet Earth and points a way toward a new direction for the evolution of the human species. The United Nations system has provided a very useful setting for the negotiations leading to agreed upon regimes for particular global activities such as space exploration and, hopefully, ocean exploitation. If SPS comes into being, it is almost certain that the UN will be engaged in creating such a regime for its operation. The experiment itself will attempt to put together an international project in space which will demand the cooperation of all nations. Notwithstanding the obstacles, the benefits of an inexhaustible, clean supply of energy could include a virtual internationalization of outer space. If the countries of the world worked toward this common goal, perhaps the destructive incentives to build arms would be overshadowed by the life power of the sun.
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