Jeff Bezos had an interesting epiphany during his short stint in space with the launch of his private space tourism company Blue Origin .

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What struck Jeff Bezos as he surmounted the Karman Line , the boundary 100km above sea level widely considered the start of space , was the fragility of our planet ’ s atmosphere . It ’ s hardly an earth-shattering observation , but his next comments to CBS reporters were : “ We can move all heavy industry and all polluting industry off of Earth and operate it in space .”

It ’ s a fantastical notion – even the bookseller-turnedbillionaire admitted so – but then again , who would ’ ve expected to see two private space tourism companies launch – in more than one sense of the word – within a two-week timeframe ?

Back on terra firma , supply chain and procurement executives shrug their shoulders . The sector is already playing arguably the biggest role in reducing carbon emissions from global trade , developing new innovations to combat a sustainability crisis slowly spiralling out of control – think Unilever ’ s globe-trotting nano factories or Maersk ’ s pioneering carbon-neutral shipping vessel . But maybe sometime in the not too distant future , supply chain leaders will add space to the land , sea and air networks that keep the world moving .

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