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Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources available on Earth and the behavior of everyone on it to act as a harmonious crew working toward the greater good.
It may have been derived from a passage in Henry George's best known work, Progress and Poverty (1879). From book IV, chapter 2:
It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we sail through space. If the bread and beef above decks seem to grow scarce, we but open a hatch and there is a new supply, of which before we never dreamed. And very great command over the services of others comes to those who as the hatches are opened are permitted to say, "This is mine!"
In 1965 Adlai Stevenson made a 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". The following year, Spaceship Earth became the title of a book by a friend of Stevenson's, the internationally influential economist Barbara Ward.
Also in 1966 Kenneth E. Boulding used the phrase in the title of an essay, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth. Boulding described the past open economy of apparently illimitable resources, which he said he was tempted to call the "cowboy economy", and continued: "The closed economy of the future might similarly be called the 'spaceman' economy, in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything, either for extraction or for pollution, and in which, therefore, man must find his place in a cyclical ecological system". (David Korten would take up the "cowboys in a spaceship" theme in his 1995 book When Corporations Rule the World.)
The phrase was also popularized by Buckminster Fuller, who wrote and published a book in 1969 under the title of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. This quotation, referring to fossil fuels, reflects his approach: "...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.
Walt Disney World EPCOT Orlando Fl.
Retro Alien & Spaceship Landing
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Um, need to rotate this photo methinks. This is the main church in Iceland, which was dubbed in the travel guide as a 'spaceship'. I dunno, but it's certainly not traditional.
This is at the base of the giant ball (Spaceship Earth) near the entrance. I have been surrounded by triangles lately! =)
Epcot
March 2013
Standing 180ft tall Spaceship Earth towers over the entrance to Epcot and the Future World. Lit brightly at night the sphere looks even more impressive.
spaceship passing an infrared nebula (Hochhaus, Berlin-Friedrichstrasse)
Gewusst von S. Dekind in der Guess Where Berlin-Gruppe
Spaceship Earth is the iconic and symbolic structure of Epcot, a theme park that is part of the Walt Disney World Resort. One of the most recognizable structures at the Walt Disney World Resort, it is not only the centerpiece and main focal point of Epcot, but also the name of the attraction housed within the 18-story geodesic sphere that takes guests on a time machine themed experience using the Omnimover system.
-Wikipedia.org
1 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • A spaceship on the ground floor of Union Station (1915), is a perfectly scaled play space for two satisfied kids.
The music of the Renaissance in Spaceship Earth at Epcot in Walt Disney World.
I'm slowly pushing the low-light limits of my camera to see what the boundary is before the image becomes complete junk. This one is right at that boundary where although you can get the image, it's hard to get the levels balanced since it gets a little too grainy and it's hard to pull out highlights without munching it up.
An unfinished ship, devoid of any interior, flies through space. A lonely stardroid attempts to pilot at the unfinished control deck, but to no avail. So he stares off the bridge into space.
Yeah, built this back to front, and as I got closer to the front my parts choices got more limited... The only windshield I had is ugly, and the front end really doesn't work. I need my red bricks back so this model will never be fully kitted out. I still like the idea of a two-level spaceship, but this was not the one. Plus, got my first MOC use of those train scoops.
Spaceship and that. It's amazing how productive I can be when I should be doing work... This pic is just to show off the landing stuff