Fuller's Chick -- Hope on Earth Day

The great designer R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller startled the world in the 1960s with a book called Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. It is still highly relevant. One hopeful image is this one:

"To begin our position-fixing aboard our Spaceship Earth we must first acknowledge that the abundance of immediately consumable, obviously desirable or utterly essential resources have been sufficient until now to allow us to carry on despite our ignorance. Being eventually exhaustible and spoilable, they have been adequate only up to this critical moment. This cushion-for-error of humanity’s survival and growth up to now was apparently provided just as a bird inside of the egg is provided with liquid nutriment to develop it to a certain point. But then by design the nutriment is exhausted at just the time when the chick is large enough to be able to locomote on its own legs. And so as the chick pecks at the shell seeking more nutriment it inadvertently breaks open the shell. Stepping forth from its initial sanctuary, the young bird must now forage on its own legs and wings to discover the next phase of its regenerative sustenance." 

 This is the man who made us aware of the concept of "synergy" and asked us to overcome specialization and think as comprehensively as we are able. He is my Earth Day hero.