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# Ian Stoner
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**Domain:** space-development
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**Type:** person
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**Role:** Philosophy professor
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## Overview
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Ian Stoner is a philosopher who argued against Mars colonization on environmental ethics grounds in his 2017 paper, applying the Principle of Scientific Conservation (PSC) to argue that Mars should remain pristine as a scientifically valuable object.
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## Key Positions
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**Anti-Mars colonization argument (2017):**
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- Applied Principle of Scientific Conservation to Mars
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- Argued there are no countervailing considerations that override the PSC obligation
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- Compared Mars to the Great Pyramids: studying them for 100+ years doesn't justify converting them to hotels
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- Position was later challenged by Gottlieb (2019) on existential risk grounds
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## Timeline
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- **2017** — Published argument against Mars colonization based on Principle of Scientific Conservation
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- **2019** — Gottlieb published rebuttal arguing existential risk mitigation overrides PSC concerns |