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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
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<p><i>Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth</i> is a short book by <a href="/facts/R._Buckminster_Fuller/fLvx87hc">R. Buckminster Fuller</a>, first published in 1969, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967. </p><p>The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. Noting the lack of any user manual to help Earthians steward this ship, Fuller offers some reflections, prognostications, and guidance, based on contemporary concepts of linked relationships, that may help in the understanding, management, sustainment, and creation of a plan to preserve spaceship earth for the future of humanity . The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. </p>