Deep down, our collective global human psyche and communal heart were
steeped in and paralyzed by a dreadful fear
—of the other we called enemy, and of ourselves—
we who had unleashed a power we could not control, that made
everyone on Earth and the
Earth itself an
enemy and victim—of nuclear warfare.

In truth, the Apollo astronauts were on a military expedition and their photographing the Earth was part of their mapping task. They sought to determine how a ring of armed nuclear satellites could be put in orbit around the Earth. This was in response to President John F. Kennedy's belief that,

"Control of space will be decided in the next decade.
If the Soviets control space, they can
control Earth, as in the past centuries the nations that controlled the seas
dominated the continents."

Simultaneously, the seeds of the Earthfolk vision were planted by a range of movements that arose to counter this movement to militarize outer space.

 

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