"Buckminster Fuller, the twentieth century philosopher, described the Earth as a spaceship, and he wrote that all humans are really astronauts sharing residence on a planet travelling 60,000 miles an hour. He believed, "We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody." This is exactly the underlying philosophy that propels the United Nations... Having a global education and being a world citizen is the key element for peace and for all elements of progress outlined in the UN Charter."
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J. Michael Adam, in "Preparing the Next Generation to Join the Conference Table", UN Chronicle, Volume 47, Issue 3, (2012)
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