Film: Spaceship Earth
A fascinating cautionary tale about a grand plan to build a self-sustaining replica of Earth’s ecosystem
Spaceship Earth is an entertaining documentary that follows a group with an audacious plan to create a self-sufficient dome in the Arizona desert that represents the entire planet’s ecosystem. Their plan was to then seal eight individuals inside for two yearsto examine the closed system and to see if they could survive without any outside interference.
As the story played out, I felt like I was watching a car crash in slow motion, just waiting for it to all go wrong. – which eventually it did and in rather spectacular fashion. At one point the entire endeavour was labelled ‘trendy ecological entertainment’ by the media.