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3 unusual facts about Martyn J. Fogg


7th millennium

By 7000 AD, Venus could feasibly have been terraformed, according to Martyn J. Fogg in Terraforming: Engineering Planetary Environments.

Ethics of terraforming

Martyn J. Fogg rebutted these ideas by delineating four potential rationales on which to evaluate the ethics of terraforming—anthropocentrism, zoocentrism, ecocentrism, and preservationism—roughly forming a spectrum from placing the most value on human utility to placing the most value on preserving nature.

Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space

It includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin; other notable authors include Robert L. Forward, Martyn J. Fogg, and Christopher McKay.


George G. Fogg

Fogg was secretary of the Republican National Executive Committee in 1860, and was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Minister Resident to Switzerland, holding that office from 1861 to 1865.

He studied law at Meredith and at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice at Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire.


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