After 178 Days in Orbit, NASA Astronaut’s ‘Lightbulb Moment’ Exposes Humanity’s Biggest Lie

After 178 Days in Orbit, NASA Astronaut’s ‘Lightbulb Moment’ Exposes Humanity’s Biggest Lie

When NASA astronaut Ronald Garan looked down at Earth from 250 miles (402.34 km) above its surface, he didn’t just see continents and oceans. He saw contradiction. Beauty, fragility—and a lie that he believes defines the way we live. “From space,” Garan said, “it becomes painfully clear how our human-made systems treat Earth’s vital systems as mere subsidiaries of the global economy.” After 178 days in orbit across two missions, what Garan calls…