The Global Earth/Mars Initiative

Imagine a future when traveling to space is as easy as booking passage on an airplane, hundreds of space colonies orbit Earth and permanent colonies exist on the Moon and Mars. A future when Earth’s biosphere begins to recover, and the human condition is enduringly improved. A future when shared global challenges and pursuing grand space goals have reenergized our human spirit.. Join William Bookmaker, a historian from the late 2050s, as he chronicles the first three decades of the most remarkable project humanity has ever envisioned and attempted to execute – and explore the seminal events and characters that influenced our collective history over these thirty years.. The Global Earth/Mars Initiative, founded by the fictional Edward Fisher, the world’s richest person, aimed to improve the human condition; help clean up Earth’s biosphere; and revitalize the human spirit through the pursuit of audacious space goals – specifically, colonizing, and terraforming Mars.. To fund the project, Fisher raised $3.4 trillion from almost 200 nations, thousands of businesses and organizations, and individuals. He then handed over control to an eccentric world-renowned scientist and a relatively unknown university professor of cultural anthropology. For the next three decades, they would pursue the project’s mission, helping to fix our world while reaching for the stars.. Here’s just some of what’s to come in this exciting era:A girl named Alya is the first baby born in space.The last combustion-engine car is manufactured.A human steps on the planet Mars for the first time.The dominance of cleaner, low-carbon, renewable energy becomes a reality.The forests and oceans of the world begin to recover.The Space Elevator debuts.Nearly $100 trillion in generational wealth is transferred.The Space Gold Rush begins.The unprecedented World Biodiversity Protection Treaty is ratified at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.Major university systems band together to develop an early artificial-gravity space colony.Space transportation innovations unleash space tourism for the masses.