The Race for What No One Owns
The New Scramble for Orbit, the Moon, and the Deep SeaBy Tobias Veylen
Length7h 7m
About this audiobook
Who controls the places no nation can own?
Earth’s orbit is crowding. Governments and companies are preparing for the Moon. Vast areas of the deep seabed have already been assigned for exploration.
No one officially owns these frontiers. Yet power is taking shape through position, infrastructure, standards, safety zones, contracts, and precedent.
In The Race for What No One Owns, Tobias Veylen reveals how practical control can emerge where sovereignty is forbidden. Listeners will discover why satellites have become essential infrastructure, why lunar resources are drawing global attention, how the international seabed is being divided, and how early movers may secure lasting advantages before the rules are fully written.
Accessible, balanced, and compelling, this audiobook explains one of the defining geopolitical shifts of the twenty-first century.
The next great scramble has already begun.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Science and Nature
Length7 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
2Prologue: A Map Without Borders
3Chapter 1: The Infinity Illusion
4Chapter 2: The Flag Is No Longer the Point
5Chapter 3: The Soft Claim
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6Chapter 4: The Infrastructure Above Us
7Chapter 5: The Crowded Road With No Traffic Authority
8Chapter 6: Constellations and the First-Mover Advantage
9Chapter 7: Who Pays for the Debris?
10Chapter 8: The Ice in the Dark
11Chapter 9: Mining Without Owning
12Chapter 10: The Safety Zone Problem
13Chapter 11: The First Settlement Is Also a Standard
14Chapter 12: The Metal Field Below the Law
15Chapter 13: The Authority for All Humankind
16Chapter 14: The Code That Arrived Late
17Chapter 15: A Mine Nobody Has Approved
18Chapter 16: Antarctica and the Rule Written Before the Rush
19Chapter 17: Who Sets the Planet's Thermostat?
20Chapter 18: The New Enclosure
21Chapter 19: The Countries That Cannot Arrive First
22Chapter 20: Rules Before Facts
23Conclusion: The First Generation to Decide
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