Buckminister Fuller started something called the World Game back in the sixties. It has become the spaceshipEARTH Presentation v1.0. In the early 70's Donella Meadows worked with Jay Forrester of MIT to produce a report called "Limits to Growth." this link downloads an abstract of the paper, while this one takes you to the page of the Club of Rome; the organization that commissioned the report. ( Not incidentally, Idries Shah was said to have been involved in that project.)

For me, and perhaps my generation, the globe was the framing conceit of all intentional philosophy.