William Shatner's thoughts when he looked upon the Earth from Space: "I wept for the Earth,” he says. “Because I realized it's dying...It's them, those youngsters, who are going to reap what we have sown in terms of the destruction of the Earth."
According to NPR, he experienced what’s known as the “overview effect,” a “cognitive and emotional shift in a person's awareness, their consciousness and their identity when they see the Earth from Space. They're at a distance and they're seeing the Earth... in the context of the universe."
"It was the death that I saw in space and the life-force that I saw coming from the planet — the blue, the beige and the white," Shatner said. "And I realized one was death and the other was life."
These shifts in perspective are occurring all around us, portending a bleak future that we CAN prevent. It’s on all of us to heed the signs and work to nurture life in the face of death and destruction!
We don't need to take a rocket to space to...
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