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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Business Ignorant Littering
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hungry Long Race
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Acting Peace Venture
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Mistakes Sports
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Peace Ubuntu
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Alternative Intelligent Stupid
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship