For me, to coexist is to build a working relationship. While we live and share the same space and time, to live in peace and take considerations of other’s needs is like being each other’s roommates/crew maters. To treat each other how we want to be treated, to be respectful, to agree to disagree, to have necessary boundaries while still being supportive and caring.
The concept derives from quotes by two of recent history’s most visionary futurists. R. Buckminster Fuller wrote, “We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth.” And Marshall McLuhan wrote, “There are no passengers on spaceship earth, we are all crew.”