SPACESHIP EARTH
“CREW OF ONE HEART”
“On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everyone is crew.”
R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969
"We are blinded by the delusions that rise from our hollow and rotting social order.
It is vain pomposity to believe that humanity can advance while the earth and its
native peoples, plants and animals are enslaved, desecrated and destroyed.”
Robert Lawlor, Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal
Dreamtime, 1992
“Nature itself does not speak with a voice that we can easily understand. Neither
can the animals and birds we are threatening with extinction talk to us. Who in this
world can speak for nature and the spiritual energy that creates and flows through
all life?
Nature, the First People and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud
warnings...you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms,
climate changes and earthquakes as our prophecies said would come. Even animals
and birds are warning us with strange change in their behavior such as the
beaching of whales. Why do animals act like they know about the earth’s problems
and most humans act like they know nothing?
The great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds
were destroyed.”
Thomas Banyacya, Hopi elder, Address to UN 1992
“Computers have made it possible to instantaneously move staggering
amounts of capital, information, and equipment throughout the world,
giving unprecedented power to the largest institutions on the earth. In fact,
computers make these institutions possible...environmentalists have contributed to
the problem by failing to effectively criticize technical evolution despite its obvious
growing, and inherent bias against nature.
I fear that the ultimate direction of technology will become...the last two big
‘wilderness intervention’ battlegrounds: space and the genetic structures of living
creatures. From there, it's on to the ‘postbiological age’ of nanotechnology and
robotics, whose advocates don't even pretend to care about the natural world.”
Jerry Mander, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of
the Indian Nations, 1991
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Our posturings, our
imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the
Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck ithe great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no
hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
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