In 1968, Apollo 8 went to the moon. They didn’t land but they did circle the moon and, as was shown on television, at a certain point one of the astronauts casually said that they’re gonna turn the camera around and show us the Earth. And he did… and that was the first time Frank White, the author of “The Overview Effect”, had ever seen the planet hanging in space like that… and it was profound. For the philosopher David Loy, like for other people, it was quite a shock… cont.
