Human Rise A New Start for the World By John S. Hamalian
In December of 1968, something extraordinary happened in the annals of human history. The inhabitants of Earth gazed their eyes on a colorful image of their own world brilliantly rising above the horizon of the moon, a remarkable photo now known as Earthrise.
reuniting with arc connectors such as the Roman highways, the Silk Road, and the rediscovery of the Americas, and now we are more linked than ever before.
With the planet now facing an ever-growing number of mutual, global threats such as All of humanity stared in awe. One planet. One infectious diseases, climate change, weapons of mass destruction, rogue asteroids, solar storms, place. One people. and the unknown risks of super-advanced It was at that precise moment that we began technologies, we have a historic opportunity to to understand that our planet is small, that it is rethink the only home we have, to redesign how precious, and that we all share it together as one we cooperate, and to rebuild the world we live in. common home. Rivers know no borders, winds know no The COVID pandemic and other relatively recent frontiers, ideas know no limits, and missiles know catastrophes such as the 1918 flu, smallpox, and no bounds. So it only makes sense to build a two horrific world wars, have shown us that, world where we collaborate to solve common rather than sitting on isolated points, we all lie on problems, share and exchange innovations, the same arc of humanity. respect each other even as we disagree, and That global epiphany in 1968 helped connect look at each other through the prism of mutual us back to ourselves, evoking a deep, perhaps human kinship. forgotten, sense of belonging in humanity. At While working on his film Apollo 13, Ron Howard some point we were all together and over the recalled that several astronauts “described millennia, we slowly drifted apart, gradually 38 LIVING IN SINGAPORE
