Spaceship-Earth environmental worldview was developed in 1962 after Rachel Carson wrote her book,Silent Spring.

The Spaceship Earth environmental worldview is a metaphor often used to express concern for the sustainable management of Earth's resources, suggesting that Earth is a "spaceship" with limited resources that must be managed wisely. Although Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," published in 1962, significantly influenced environmental awareness and the modern environmental movement, the specific concept of "Spaceship Earth" is more directly attributed to the work of economist Barbara Ward and architect Buckminster Fuller in the mid to late 1960s, rather than being developed as a direct consequence of Carson's book.