Spaceship Earth remains a compelling metaphor for our collective reality. Unfortunately, our ship looks as if it may have been made by an inter-galactic branch of Boeing.
Until I consulted what Tony Abbott might have called the suppository of all wisdom – Wikipedia – I hadn’t realised quite how long the idea of Spaceship Earth had been around. I thought it had been dreamed up by drug addled hippies during the Summer of Love, but it has some longstanding and serious champions, too.