A Visitor’s View of the Earth.—From CACOR Archives.

A Visitor’s View of the Earth.

1997  Series 1  Number 23  Page 28

C.R. (Buzz) Nixon wrote this one-page essay several years before its publication.  In it, he muses about Carl Sagan’s famous Pale Blue Dot in the form of the photo of Earth from an astronaut’s viewpoint.  He related that a extra-terrestrial observing Earth from space might well determine that it was in the grips of a terrible plague…of humans bent on destroying it.  Rather than referring to Dr. Sagan, he referred to the words of Harrison Brown, in 1953, who said machine [industrial] civilization had created more problems than it had solved.  For that civilization to fulfill its promise of comfort, security, and achievement will require humanity to use its collective intelligence to extricate itself from its predicament.

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