The most important question we must ask ourselves is, Are we being good ancestors? So said Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine in 1953 but refused to patent it--forgoing profit so that more lives could be saved.
Salk's radical generosity to future generations should inspire us.
But when leading philosopher Roman Krznaric examines society today, he sees just the opposite: Our short term, exploitative mindsets have colonized the future.
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Experiment The good ancestor: a radical prescription for long-term thinking, hardcover/roman krznaric
