What We Owe the Future
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781541618626
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: Imagine living, in order of birth, through the life of every human being who has ever lived.
Table of contents: label: I
title: The Long View; title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: The Case for Longtermism
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: You Can Shape the Course of History
pagenum: 29; label: II
title: Trajectory Changes; label: 3
title: Moral Change
pagenum: 47; label: 4
title: Value Lock-In
pagenum: 75; label: III
title: Safeguarding Civilisation; label: 5
title: Extinction
pagenum: 105; label: 6
title: Collapse
pagenum: 121; label: 7
title: Stagnation
pagenum: 143; label: IV
title: Assessing the End of the World; label: 8
title: Is It Good to Make Happy People?
pagenum: 167; label: 9
title: Will the Future Be Good or Bad?
pagenum: 191; label: V
title: Taking Action; label: 10
title: What to Do
pagenum: 223; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 247; title: Appendices; label: 1
title: Further Resources
pagenum: 253; label: 2
title: Terminology
pagenum: 253; label: 3
title: The SPC Framework
pagenum: 254; label: 4
title: Objections to Longtermism
pagenum: 257; title: Figure Credits and Data Sources
pagenum: 263; title: Notes
pagenum: 265; title: Index
pagenum: 317