A radical Prescription for long-term thinking in the book ‘The Good Ancestor’ by Roman Krznaric. Philosopher and co-founder of the School of Life, Krznaric sees short-term thinking as the root of our problems today. The future generation is not taken into account due to this, thus suffering hugely from shortsighted decisions today. A major problem this pertains to is of course climate change.

Short-term thinking is at the root of virtually every life-threatening problem we have to solve in the coming years, from climate change to the growing world population. Luckily, hopeful movements around the world are arising who want to protect the rights of the unborn generation.