Crew – the group of people who operate a ship, airplane, or train
Passenger – a person who is traveling from one place to another in a car, bus, train, ship, airplane, etc., and who is not driving or working on it
-Merriam Webster Dictionary
Posted: 12.22.2016
While spaceships and space stations can be refueled and resupplied from the home planet; that is not an option for Spaceship Earth.
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.21.2016
Everyone on Earth today is down-wind or down-stream from someone else, so a problem anywhere on the planet, in some way, is a problem for all on the planet.
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.20.2016
Any problem with or on the spacecraft is a liability for all those on board. It is collective and collaborative survival in the extreme.
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.19.2016
Spaceship Earth is where all humans live. There is no other known planet inhabited or inhabitable by humans, this is our only place.
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.16.2016
First, we take stock of the status of our planetary spaceship. Next, we forgive what has happened, as we all played a part in what has taken place. We then let go of past models of thought and implementation. Lastly, we face forward, think differently, and (re)discover smarter and more elegant ways to interact with and operate This Spaceship Earth. Soon!
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.15.2016
We are in a changing, dynamic, planetary situation that has never existed during modern humanity’s time on Earth. We are convinced that this calls for a new consciousness, a planetary crew consciousness.
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.14.2016
Climate change, super storms, highly unusual weather, historic droughts, floods, and sea level rise make us realize that this is not the planet or biosphere we used to know. Is humanity at risk? Is humanity at cause?
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.13.2016
There is a developing urgency around humanity’s relationship to Earth. What had been speculation has now become fact. What had been theorized, is now being experienced.
-“This Spaceship Earth” Houle and Rumage
Posted: 12.12.2016
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
-Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish essayist and philosopher
Posted: 12.10.2016