Letter
Spaceship Earth
Excellent analogy of our planet as a spaceship by Mark Beeson (“Spaceship Earth is experiencing turbulence” Pearls and Irritations, 6/8).
Indeed, all passengers aboard spaceship earth are in for an increasingly rough ride, with the vast majority sadly set to experience more tough turbulence than others. Beeson’s suggestions of how we might collectively steady the ship are excellent. In this era of misinformation, disinformation and constant distraction, however, how we “make the stability of the Earth and the environment upon which we all depend the single most important goal of everyone on board” is anyone’s guess. I, for one, however, won’t let the beautiful spaceship earth crash without trying.
— Amy Hiller from Kew, Victoria