Today, I called my mom to watch together as Star Trek's William Shatner went boldly where no 90-year-old has gone before: To outer space.

When he stepped off the spaceship, Shatner shared extremely moving thoughts about our "vulnerable" Earth being in "jeopardy."

"What I would love to do is communicate as much as possible...the jeopardy. The moment you see how vulnerable, the vulnerability of everything. It’s so small. This air, which is keeping us alive, is thinner than your skin. It’s a sliver! It’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. It’s immeasurable. Mars doesn’t have it...It's just there, Mother Earth...it was so moving."

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Ironically, today's space flight contributed directly to the pollution of Earth. It was run by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, who avoids taxation, under-pays workers, and has enough excess wealth to play around with high-pollution spaceships.

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