is a familiar companion to US All and to the World at large, and whose well being must be considered before an imminent eclipsing by common place human destructive tendencies of it’s integral worldwide environmentally sustaining purpose.
Since the United States of America first placed a stake and claim onto the surface of our internationally shared moon, we as a people could realistically enact the Antiquities Act of 1906 through any currently sitting US President, guiding the pen to provide general protection for our shared cultural and natural resources on these somewhat distantly situated federal lands.
Acting on behalf of the entire planet We The Pupil must declare Our shared Moon an historic landmark and an international monument, comprised of prehistoric structures—natural and otherwise, and supplementary objects of scientific, meteorological, planetary health sustaining interest, and further ensure the protection of this International Aggregate Monument ~ Our Moon from destruction or looting.
Of course if—according to research and conjecture over the decades since 1969 July 20 with the placement of the first human footsteps in the Sea of Tranquility—the Moon is hollow and further speculated as an artificial object of manufacture used as a space station by alternate biological entities to monitor life on our shared Earth, then invoking the Antiquities Act is not actually necessary.
As an otherworldly encampment of mission control, the human confiscation of the Moon will likely and thankfully not be allowed to occur.
Yet even if our wonderful space companion was long ago chaperoned into a tidal locking orbit and synchronous rotation on this rather extended play date, it is in line with honorable friendship to actively choose to ‘play nice’ with a steadfast playmate.
Invoking the Antiquities Act will be a small kind and leading dance step for humanity, but just one misstep could throw us irrevocably off balance and out of rhythm with our elegant partner.
Thus defining Our Moon as wilderness—undeveloped land retaining its primeval character and without permanent improvements, protecting it for its natural state—will further conserve such a precious relationship. Lifting Our Shared Moon just a bit higher and into the status of an International Wilderness will be a winning giant leap for humankind.
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Moon Smiles