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This book considers the philosophical underpinnings, policy
foundations, institutional innovations, and deep cultural changes
needed to ensure that humanity has the best chance of surviving and
flourishing into the very distant future. Anticipation of threats
to the sustainability of human civilization needs to encompass time
periods that span not just decades but millennia. All existential
risks need to be jointly assessed, as opposed to addressing risks
such as climate change and pandemics separately. Exploring the
potential events that are likely to cause the biggest risks as well
as asking why we should even desire to thrive into the distant
future, this work looks at the 'biggest picture possible' in order
to argue that futures-oriented decision-making ought to be a
permanent aspect of human society and futures-oriented policy
making must take precedent over the day-to-day policy making of
current generations in times of great peril. The book concludes
with a discourse on the truly fundamental bottom-up changes needed
in our personal psychologies and culture to support these top-down
recommendations. This book is of great interest to philosophers,
policy analysts, political scientists, economists, psychologists,
planners, and theologians.
This book considers the philosophical underpinnings, policy
foundations, institutional innovations, and deep cultural changes
needed to ensure that humanity has the best chance of surviving and
flourishing into the very distant future. Anticipation of threats
to the sustainability of human civilization needs to encompass time
periods that span not just decades but millennia. All existential
risks need to be jointly assessed, as opposed to addressing risks
such as climate change and pandemics separately. Exploring the
potential events that are likely to cause the biggest risks as well
as asking why we should even desire to thrive into the distant
future, this work looks at the 'biggest picture possible' in order
to argue that futures-oriented decision-making ought to be a
permanent aspect of human society and futures-oriented policy
making must take precedent over the day-to-day policy making of
current generations in times of great peril. The book concludes
with a discourse on the truly fundamental bottom-up changes needed
in our personal psychologies and culture to support these top-down
recommendations. This book is of great interest to philosophers,
policy analysts, political scientists, economists, psychologists,
planners, and theologians.
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