Astronauts don’t bring all their drinking water from Earth.
Instead, they rely on closed-loop water recycling systems
that recover and purify nearly every drop of moisture produced onboard.
That includes urine, sweat, breath vapor, shower water, and humidity from the air.
In space, nothing is wasted.
A space station circling the watery pebble we call home…
Cooperation brought us so far.
A majority of us have enough to eat and some of us – albeit very few – get to see the world from above.
Some of us might wonder:
What’s the point of ISS?!?
Wouldn’t that money be better spent feeding the hungry?
The short answer is:
‘We don’t need the ISS money. Feeding the hungry is well within our current possibilities. We just haven’t yet figured out how important this is!’
And here’s the explanation.
We’re no longer able to feed ourselves. Individually…
In order to enjoy our current standard of life, we need to cooperate.
In order to cooperate, we need to trust each-other.
Nobody has asked to be born.
Yet here we are.
La Legion Etrangere goes by “Marche ou Creve”. Keep walking or ‘make way’.
Now that we’ve been born, how about we make the best of it?
Those who get to see the world from above did have a say about the whole thing.
Nobody gets there against their wishes.
And they know what they’re signing for. Not everything – some of them don’t get to get there – but they have a fair image of what’s gonna happen to them. Including the facts about the water they’ll be drinking while enjoying the view.
Maybe it’s time for the rest of us to understand the limited nature of the Earth itself.
Not as limited as the ISS but I’m sure you understand my drift.
The astronauts trust each-other.
And they trust the rest of us.
Those who have made it possible for them to go there.
We, the rest, need to learn the trick.
How to actively, agentically, build trust 2.0.
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