Spaceship Earth

"[3] George Orwell had earlier paraphrased Henry George in his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier: [4] The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of provisions for everybody; the idea that we must all cooperate and see to it that everyone does his fair share of the work and gets his fair share of the provisions seems so blatantly obvious that one would say that no one could possibly fail to accept it unless he had some corrupt motive for clinging to the present system.In 1965, Adlai Stevenson made a speech to the United Nations, in which he said: We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.

[full citation needed] In 1966, Kenneth E. Boulding, who was influenced by reading Henry George's work,[6] used the phrase in the title of his essay, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth.

"[9] Spaceship Earth is the name given to the 50 m (160 ft) diameter geodesic sphere that greets visitors at the entrance of Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park.

Housed within the sphere is a dark ride that serves to explore the history of communications and promote Epcot's founding principles, "[a] belief and pride in man's ability to shape a world that offers hope to people everywhere.

"[10] A previous incarnation of the ride, narrated by actor Jeremy Irons and revised in 2008, was explicit in its message: Like a grand and miraculous spaceship, our planet has sailed through the universe of time, and for a brief moment, we have been among its many passengers... We now have the ability and the responsibility to build new bridges of acceptance and co-operation between us, to create a better world for ourselves and our children as we continue our amazing journey aboard Spaceship Earth.