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The thought is not new, but it is profound and it can help guide humanity as we deal with the myriad environmental challenges facing us at the beginning of the 21st century: we all inhabit one giant spaceship on a voyage together through the dark emptiness of space. We call it “Spaceship Earth.”
Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere Nor any drop to drink.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”
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Johnson, L., Matloff, G.L., Bangs, C. (2010). Settling the Solar System. In: Paradise Regained. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79986-5_15
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