Researchers offer a blueprint for governing Mars

Quartz included research by UBC political scientist Michael Byers in a story about plans to govern Mars after it is colonized.

The goal for NASA is to have human on Mars by the 2030s. Elon Musk believes people should vote directly on issues in a new form of governance he calls “direct democracy.”

Byers wrote that a society on Mars should be entitled to independence.

“Human rights are universal,” Byers wrote. “They apply to every human being, on this planet and elsewhere.”