• What happens when the future’s interests conflict with the present?
• Is there a tradeoff between growth now and sustainability for later?
• How do you balance serving future generations vs. addressing present crises?

From the Book - Becoming A Good Ancestor Acorn brain - idea of planting trees under who’s shade you’ll never sit.  Difficulty even at even collective public scale of thinking beyond 30 years

Deep-Time Humility - grasp we are an eyeblink in cosmic time

Care About the Future

Legacy Mindset - be remembered well by posterity 

Intergenerational Justice - consider the seventh generation ahead 

Cathedral Thinking - plan projects beyond a human lifetime 

Holistic Forecasting - envision multiple pathways for civilization 

Transcendent Goal - strive for one-planet thriving