And it changes his perspective on Earth.<\/p>\n
In a new documentary on his life<\/a>, he recalls how he felt when he first returned from a short trip into outer space.<\/p>\n William Shatner gets existential prior to the premiere of his documentary,<\/em> You Can Call Me Bill<\/p>\n …Shatner\u2019s been a little more existential since his trip up into outer space on one of Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin expeditions. It\u2019s spurred him to get more involved in environmental activism as he thinks about humanity in a greater sense.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I came out of the space ship I was crying, just sobbing, and I thought why am I crying? What\u2019s going on? I\u2019m in grief. What am I grieving about?\u201d Shatner says. \u201cOh shit, I\u2019m grieving about the world, because I now know so much about what\u2019s happening. I saw the Earth and its beauty and its destruction. It\u2019s going extinct. Billions of years of evolution may vanish. It\u2019s sacred, it\u2019s holy, it\u2019s life and it\u2019s gone. It\u2019s beyond tragic. We stupid fucking animals are destroying this gorgeous thing called the Earth. Doesn\u2019t that make you angry? Don\u2019t you want to do something about it?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I wish there were an easier way to share this understanding with all other humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And it changes his perspective on Earth. In a new documentary on his life, he recalls how he felt when he first returned from a short trip into outer space. William Shatner gets existential prior to the premiere of his documentary, You Can Call Me Bill …Shatner\u2019s been a little more existential since his trip up into outer space on one of Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin expeditions. It\u2019s spurred him to get more involved in environmental activism as he thinks about humanity in a greater sense. \u201cWhen I came out of the space ship I was crying, just sobbing, and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153,25,5,13,167],"tags":[87,124],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-environment","category-philosophy","category-science","category-space","tag-environment-2","tag-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1wS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5886,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}