How Can We Be Good Ancestors? | Roman Krznaric MAD 7
MAD7, Environment & Sustainability,
When philosopher Roman Krznaric voted in a UK election, he gave his ballot to his kids. His message was clear: their futures will be shaped by today’s decisions far more than his own.
In his talk at #MAD7—drawn from his book The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World—Roman makes the case that we’ve colonized the future. We're treating it like a dumping ground for problems we can’t (or won’t) solve.
But what if we flipped the script? What if we started thinking like ancestors?
Looking at cathedral builders, Victorian engineers, and Indigenous traditions of long-term thinking, Roman invites us to stretch our imaginations far beyond the next quarter, the next election, or even the next generation.
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