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"There are countless different species on the surface of this planet.
One of these is the human race, which has over seven billion members. In
one sense, there are no nations, just groups of humans inhabiting
different areas of the planet. In some cases, there are natural borders
formed by sea or mountains, but often borders between nations are simply
abstractions, imaginary boundaries established by agreement or conflict.
Rusty Schweikhart, a member of the 1969 Apollo 9 space mission,
explained how when he looked at the Earth from space, he experienced a
profound shift in perspective. Like most of us, he was brought up to
think in terms of countries with borders and different nationalities,
but seeing the world from this new angle changed his view. He felt “part
of everyone and everything”. As he described it:
You look down there and you can’t imagine how many borders and
boundaries you cross, again and again and again, and you don’t even
see them.
Schweikhart’s perspective reminds us that we belong to the Earth rather
than to a nation, and to a species rather than a nationality. And
although we might feel distinct and different, we all have a common
source. Our species originally developed in eastern Africa around
200,000 years ago and migrated out into the rest of the world in a
series of waves. If there was an ancestry website that could trace our
lineage back to the very beginning, we would find that we all have the
same great-great (followed by many other “greats”) grandparents."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
