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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Approximate author period: c. 1915 AD · modern
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- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Approximate author period: c. 1915 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Buckminster Fuller: documented activity in 1915. Wikidata Q102289, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102289 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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