William Shatner is opening up more about his life-changing trip to the edge of space, why it freaked him out so badly, and how it turned him into an environmentalist., the 91-year-old "Star Trek" actor wrote that although he "knew that many before me had experienced a greater sense of care while contemplating our planet from above," what he felt was entirely different: the "deepest grief" he'd ever experienced in his life.
"I played my part in [popularizing] the idea that space was the final frontier," he admitted. "But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is, and will remain, our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable." "We need world leaders to give their diplomats a powerful mandate for these talks: agree on strong targets to change the way we produce food, to drastically cut pollution, and to conserve 50 percent of our planet’s land and ocean," he wrote, "with the active leadership of Indigenous peoples and local communities, who have historically been pioneers on all these necessary actions.
If only everyone had the same mentality to think 。 If you don’t precious something you’ll gonna lose it 。
All he saw was the eternity invisible to human eye.
Interesting. Avoiding this dark epiphany is one reason some cannot volunteer at a Hospice or work in certain fields.
Just think of all the fossil fuels and manufacturing over the years it took to send you up to the edge of space...
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