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Paperback The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking Book

ISBN: 1615198334

ISBN13: 9781615198337

The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

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When Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, he refused to patent it--forgoing profit so that more lives could be saved. His radical generosity to future generations should inspire us, but leading philosopher Roman Krznaric sees the opposite happening: Our short-term, exploitative mindsets have "colonized the future," leaving an inexcusable chasm between the haves and have-nots--and mounting existential threats--that have brought our species to the...

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