TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacAskill, William
TI  - What we owe the future : : a million-year view 
SN  - 9780861546138
U1  - 171.8 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Oneworld Publications
KW  - Future life  Future
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Social prediction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -