Dlamini, Hector2023-03-242023-03-242022Dlamini, H. 2022, 'A good ancestor', Acta Academica, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 144-147, doi : 10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/9.0587-2405 (print)2415-0479 (online)10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/9http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90193In 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).en© Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY).ResponsibilityFuture generationsGood ancestorsLong-term thinkingArticle