Dystopia

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• Regional development is about tackling spatial injustice – that is, regional inequalities.
• In devising these scenarios, we found that outer space isn’t only useful as a literary device.
• Real future activity in outer space actually has significant potential to affect regional inequality back on Earth.

Four scenarios for Europe’s future

• The EU is now a big player in outer space.
• Environmental protection on Earth is prioritised as crucial to economic growth and the bloc is relegating polluting industries to orbital locations and beyond.
• The economic benefits of these activities are shared out automatically among the bloc’s members.
• In the second scenario, Green Guardian, climate catastrophe forces the world to refocus on sustainability and survival.
• People can now be citizens of virtual spaces as well as physical nations –- including digital jurisdictions hosted in outer space.

Implications for the present

• Even after Brexit, British development funds were being compared to the amount DG-Regio would have spent on UK regions.
• We set these scenarios in the year 2048 – that is, four of DG-Regio’s seven-year funding cycles from the project’s start date.
• To build them, we mapped out the institutions and communities with which DG-Regio interacts and explored the uncertainties shaping their decisions.
• These include climate change, technological advances including AI and space travel, shifts in social values and geopolitical tensions.
• Our scenarios are not predictions of what will happen, nor are they visions of what we’d like to see.

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