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I really liked how former Vice-President talked about the famous “Earthrise” picture in his book An Inconvenient Truth. This famous picture taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts as they traveled around the Moon. Seeing this picture had a powerful impact on how humanity viewed its home.

Al Gore included a poem written by Archibald MacLeish that was inspired by this picture.

“To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold–brothers who know now that they are truly brothers.”

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Posted by Tim Roth, author of the political blog Think Anew and Act Anew