Excerpt from "NASA astronaut who watched Earth from space for 178 days realized humanity is 'living a lie'" at good.is linked below.
'While Garan observed some pretty magical visuals, he also noticed something concerning. “I saw the unbelievable thinness of our planet's atmosphere,” the astronaut remarked. It was this very view that left him distressed.
That “paper-thin” atmosphere is all that stands between humanity and disaster. Garan was troubled by how easily this fact is overshadowed by economic priorities. “I saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life. I didn't see the economy. But since our human-made systems treat everything, including the very life-support systems of our planet, as the wholly owned subsidiary of the global economy, it's obvious from the vantage point of space that we're living a lie,” he said.
According to Garan, humanity’s inability to see the bigger picture limits our potential to solve the planet’s real problems. He shared the concept of the “overview effect,” something many astronauts feel after they visit space. “It describes the shift that astronauts have when they see the planet hanging in the blackness of space. There's this light bulb that pops up where they realize how interconnected and interdependent we all are,” the astronaut explained. He added that while most people view Earth as a whole and consider the rest of the space as “others,” that's not the case. “There is no such thing as them. There's only us,” he exclaimed.
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https://www.good.is/when-nasa-astronaut-realized-a-heartbreaking-lie-after-seeing-earth-from-space
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