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Matthew King

Matthew King is a writer and teacher currently based in New York. His essays and reportage on environmental ethics have appeared in The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and Boston Review, among others. More of his work can be found at matt-king.me and @_mattking.

Earth is surrounded by eyes. A hand, shaped like a mountain peak, is trying to break through them to get to Earth.

Spoiling the Last Frontier

January 10, 2022
This past October, while scrolling through social media one Wednesday morning, I reluctantly clicked into a livestream of yet another billionaire joyride to the lower limits of outer space. It had been a summer of first launches, overhyped PR events intended to jump-start a ...