Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960-1990

摘要

Spaceship Earth is a metaphor that has to be looked at the right way to read its significance. A ship allows outward bound voyages, trade and exploration. It can be also a safe place afloat on a stormy sea: an Ark or a fragile lifeboat. A spaceship offers the same possibilities. But Spaceship Earth typically evokes the latter kind. It is a blue bauble in the centre of immensities, a home for humanity in an otherwise hostile, lifeless universe.