Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights: 5 (Studies in Inteational Criminal Law)

by: Michael Bohlander (Author)

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff

Publication Date: 7 Aug. 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 268 pages

ISBN-10: 9004677690

ISBN-13: 9789004677692

Book Description

It is statistically unlikely that humans are the only intelligent species in the universe. Nothing about the others will be known until contact is made beyond a radio signal from space that merely tells us they existed when it was sent. That contact may occur tomorrow, in a hundred years, or never. If it does it will be a high-risk scenario for humanity. It may be peaceful or hostile. Relying on alien altruism and benign intentions is wishful thinking. We need to begin identifying as a planetary species, and develop a global consensus on how to respond in either scenario.