09/02/2024
Upon his return to Earth, Garan took what he'd experienced with the Overview Effect to come up with the concept of the 'Orbital Perspective'.
He described the Orbital Perspective as 'the call to action', adding: "[It's] the sense of injustice that we see, when we see the sobering contradiction between the indescribable beauty of our planet and the unfortunate realities of life on our planet for a significant number of the inhabitants."
Instead of thinking about the economy and society first, then, Garan has urged people to start approaching life in a way that benefits humanity as a whole in the first instance.
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