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An edition of What We Owe the Future (2022)

What We Owe the Future

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Why we should organize our plans to include the well-being people 10s or even 100s of generations into the future, and how we should go about doing that kind of planning.

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Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
335

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Subjects

altruism, civilization, eudaemonics, existential threats, forecasting, the future, long-term planning, Forecasting, Altruism, Human beings, Civilization, modern

People

Derek Parfit

Times

the present
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What We Owe the Future
2023, Basic Books
in English
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What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
2022, Oneworld Publications
in English
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What We Owe the Future
Sep 29, 2022, Oneworld
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Cover of: What We Owe the Future
What We Owe the Future
2022, Basic Books
in English
Cover of: What We Owe the Future
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
2022, Oneworld Publications
in English
Cover of: What We Owe the Future
What We Owe the Future
2022, Basic Books
hardcover in English

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First Sentence

"Imagine living, in order of birth, through the life of every human being who has ever lived."

Table of Contents

I. The Long View
Introduction
Page 3
1. The Case for Longtermism
Page 9
2. You Can Shape the Course of History
Page 29
II. Trajectory Changes
3. Moral Change
Page 47
4. Value Lock-In
Page 75
III. Safeguarding Civilisation
5. Extinction
Page 105
6. Collapse
Page 121
7. Stagnation
Page 143
IV. Assessing the End of the World
8. Is It Good to Make Happy People?
Page 167
9. Will the Future Be Good or Bad?
Page 191
V. Taking Action
10. What to Do
Page 223
Acknowledgments
Page 247
Appendices
1. Further Resources
Page 253
2. Terminology
Page 253
3. The SPC Framework
Page 254
4. Objections to Longtermism
Page 257
Figure Credits and Data Sources
Page 263
Notes
Page 265
Index
Page 317

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2022

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
171/.8—dc23/eng/20220506
Library of Congress
BJ1474.M33 2022

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
335p
Number of pages
335
Weight
574 grams

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL36841100M
ISBN 13
9781541618626

Work Identifiers

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OL27138977W

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