# @greenpeaceusa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw7oVpxsrRC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8523552-greenpeaceusa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-08T13:00:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) — https://gondola.cc/greenpeaceusa

## Caption

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."⁣⁣
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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."⁣⁣
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"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."⁣⁣
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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!⁣
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We don't need to take a rocket to space to come to this realization, but his words ring true for many of us 🌍 #StarTrekDay

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