The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World

The greatest challenge facing humankind is not climate change, or extreme inequality, or terrorism; it is our inability to think long term. We are living in the age of now. Businesses can barely see beyond the next quarterly report nor politicians beyond the next election. Markets spike then crash in speculative bubbles. In this right here, right now society, we rarely stop to consider if we're being good ancestors. But the future depends on it. Here, leading public philosopher and bestselling author Roman Krznaric explains how we lost sight of the future, and introduces the six simple, practical ways that we can change our thinking today to give our children, and our planet, a chance at a better tomorrow.