12.13.09

Earth as a space ship

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by Kenneth E Boulding
Washington State University
Committee on Space Sciences (May 10 1965)
In the imagination of those who are sensitive to the realities of our era,
the earth has become a space ship, and this, perhaps, is the most
important single fact of our day. For millennia, the earth in men’s minds
was flat and illimitable. Today, as a result of exploration, speed, and
the explosion of scientific knowledge, earth has become a tiny sphere,
closed, limited, crowded, and hurtling through space to unknown
destinations. This change in man’s image of his home affects his behaviour
in many ways, and is likely to affect it much more in the future.
Kenneth E Boulding Papers, Archives (Box # 38), University of Colorado at
Boulder Libraries.

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