Monday, July 12, 2021

"We've got to get on together and we've got to look after what we've got."

David Makay, the Scottish spaceman piloting Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic flight, says we've got to get on together and we’ve got to care for what we have - it is a small planet:

"But when you're up in space you're looking directly down... the colours on the ground look incredibly vivid and in contrast to this incredibly dark sky.

"And then on top of all that you see so much of the curvature of the Earth and you get a sense of scale of the planet and you realise it's not very big."

He said: "It's the remoteness and fragility and our utter dependence on the thinness of the atmosphere. 

"I would like to think that some of the outcomes are people will take more care of what they're doing, be much more open minded about who we are all - we're all one human race and we're all sharing this small planet that's so remote. 

"There's nothing else practically habitable within reach. We've got to get on together and we've got to look after what we've got."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-57786412  accessed 7/11/2021

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