Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Blurb

Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1968, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967.
The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied.