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Did you invent the term 'Spaceship Earth'?
Nope, the term has been around for a while! Here are some of my favorites...
In 1965, Adlai Stevenson made a famous speech to the UN in which he said:
We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.[3]
The phrase was also popularized by Buckminster Fuller. He published a book in 1968 under the title: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.[6] This quote, referring to fossil fuels, reflects his approach:
…we can make all of humanity successful through science's world-engulfing industrial evolution provided that we are not so foolish as to continue to exhaust in a split second of astronomical history the orderly energy savings of billions of years' energy conservation aboard our Spaceship Earth. These energy savings have been put into our Spaceship's life-regeneration-guaranteeing bank account for use only in self-starter functions.
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant spoke of Spaceship Earth on Earth Day March 21, 1971 at the ceremony of the ringing of the Japanese Peace Bell:
"May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life."[7]
Thank you, Wikipedia! Ellis Thanks!
Why do I not feel like I am on a spaceship?
Our perception does match our reality. I've often said that our blue and gray skies can be deceiving. It's very 2 dimensional: we wake, eat, work, sleep, and repeat. All without seeing earth from an orbital perspective. It's often hard even for me to feel like I'm in space!
How can I support ?
Bring it up at parties! Talk about it on social media! Anyway you can think of, really. #spaceshipearth.
Why no call to action for recycling or carbon emissions?
The main goal of #spaceshipearth is to increase the chance of a cognitive shift by acting as a friendly reminder for humans young, old, good, and bad, that these moments in which they live are being spent aboard #spaceshipearth. The main focus is to assist with a perspective shift of species-wide proportions. It's much simpler to change someone's perspectives than to alter their habits, but the first step is this point of view. Direct and to-the-point one-liners that expose our reality by using universal language like you, right now, or aboard, act as a catalyst to a change in perspective, hopefully, one in line with the Overview Effect/Orbital Perspective.
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