Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin is a New Atlantis contributing editor, a fellow at the Center for Security Policy, and the president of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace engineering R&D firm. He also leads the Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering space exploration. For many years, he worked as a senior engineer for Lockheed Martin. He holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering, and has nine U.S. patents granted or pending. In addition, he is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, and Mars on Earth; the science fiction novels The Holy Land and First Landing; and articles in Scientific American, The New Atlantis, American Enterprise, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has appeared on major media including CNN, C-SPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.
Mr. Zubrin's most recent book is The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility (Prometheus Books, 2019).
Mr. Zubrin's 2012 book Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, is part of the New Atlantis Books series. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of the ideology that human beings are a cancer upon the Earth — a species whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order — and exposes its deadly consequences in startling and horrifying detail. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by this antihumanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in the United States and genocidal anti-development and population-control programs around the world. And it provides scientific refutations to antihumanism's major pseudo-scientific claims, including its modern tirades against nuclear power, pesticides, population growth, biotech foods, resource depletion, industrial development, and, most recently, fear-mongering about global warming.
Mr. Zubrin can be reached at zubrin@thenewatlantis.com.
Why We Need a Technological Environmentalism
Saving the planet means going high-tech, not back to nature.
The Mars Decision
How to show that American democracy can still do great things
NASA's Next 50 Years
A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It's time for a real — and different — mission.
Moon Direct
A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier
Online Exclusive | October 21, 2016
Colonizing Mars
A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
Why and How We Should Break OPEC Now
Online Exclusive | September 27, 2012
The Truth About DDT and Silent Spring
The Population Control Holocaust
Opening Space with a 'Transorbital Railroad'
What the space age could learn from the age of the iron horse
State of the Art | Spring 2010
Why President Obama Must Give NASA a Destination
Accepting the Challenge Before Us
Testimony of Dr. Robert Zubrin to the Augustine Committee
In Defense of Biofuels
Achieving Energy Victory
The Hydrogen Hoax
The Methanol Alternative
Getting Space Exploration Right
The Human Explorer
Why sending robots is not enough
The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility (Prometheus, 2019)
Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism (New Atlantis Books, 2012)
How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet (Three Rivers/RandomHouse, 2008)
Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil (Prometheus Books, 2007)
Mars on Earth: The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the High Arctic (Tarcher, 2003)
The Holy Land (Polaris Books, 2003)
First Landing (Ace, 2002)
Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization (Tarcher, 2000)
The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (Free Press, 1997)
Merchants of Despair
Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism
There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for — indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the...
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