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What we owe the future : a million-year view / William MacAskill

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Oneworld Publications, 2022.Description: vii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780861546138
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171.8 MAC
Contents:
Part I. The Long View: The case for longtermism You can shape the course of history Part II. Trajectory Changes: Moral change Value lock-in Part III. Safeguarding Civilisation: Extinction Collapse Stagnation Part IV. Assessing the End of the World: Is it good to make happy people? Will the future be good or bad? Part V. Taking Action: What to do
Summary: "We are remarkably early in the story of human civilization. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilization of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hundred thousand years hence. Our duty of care to each of those individuals is the same. Positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. This is the idea fueling a burgeoning movement of longtermist thinkers: it explains why Elon Musk is trying to colonise Mars and why Jeff Bezos spent"--Publisher's description
List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals- November 1st to 30th 2022
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Part I. The Long View: The case for longtermism
You can shape the course of history
Part II. Trajectory Changes: Moral change
Value lock-in
Part III. Safeguarding Civilisation: Extinction
Collapse
Stagnation
Part IV. Assessing the End of the World: Is it good to make happy people?
Will the future be good or bad?
Part V. Taking Action: What to do

"We are remarkably early in the story of human civilization. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilization of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hundred thousand years hence. Our duty of care to each of those individuals is the same. Positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. This is the idea fueling a burgeoning movement of longtermist thinkers: it explains why Elon Musk is trying to colonise Mars and why Jeff Bezos spent"--Publisher's description

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