Abstract:
In The Good Ancestor, Roman Krznaric presents a
compelling argument about our responsibility to
future generations. He highlights that in order to be
good ancestors to the future generations we need
to make a shift from short-term thinking, shorttermism,
to long-term thinking, long-termism. He
notes that most of our decisions have been usurped
by short-termism without any regard for their effect
in the long term, a term whose horizon is centuries,
millennia or even multiple generations in the future.
There is also a six-pronged prescription of how
we can overcome the grip of short-termism and
begin to think long-term. These six aspects of the
prescription are: deep-time humility, legacy mindset,
intergenerational justice, cathedral thinking, holistic
forecasting, and transcendent goal (242).
