Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Earth Observer
Publication Date
2000
Volume
12
Issue
1
First Page
9
Last Page
10
Abstract
Whether the collective impacts of humans on the Earth are benign, or on a trajectory to future disaster is an ethical question we must now confront. However, studying the entire Spaceship Earth as a functioning Earth System had never been tried before, until now.
Rights
© 2000 NASA
Recommended Citation
Running, S. W. (2000). Why the earth observing system matters to all of us. The Earth Observer, 12(1), 9-10.