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How often do you think about the effect of your actions today on the wellbeing of future generations? What do we owe our children\u2019s children? Are we capable of responsibly delivering on that debt? Philosopher Roman Krznaric explored these questions in the book, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking. Krznaric thinks we do, and we can: \u201c...humankind has always had the innate ability to plan for posterity and take action that will resonate for decades, centuries, even millennia to come. If we want to be good ancestors and be remembered well by the generations who follow us, now is the time to recover and enrich this imaginative skill.\u201d

Long-term thinking and the rights of future generations (not to mention, compassion toward them) are a recurring theme in the GrowthBusters podcast, so we just had to read the book and schedule a conversation with its author. This fascination discussion touches on ecological economics, rights of children, short-termism, and much more.

LINKS:

How to Get Started with Family Cloth (Yup, Reusable Toilet Paper is a Real Thing)
https://redandhoney.com/how-to-get-started-with-family-cloth-and-why-you-might-actually-love-it/

Why You Shouldn't Use 'Family Cloth' Reusable Toilet Paper
https://www.thelist.com/196323/why-you-shouldnt-use-family-cloth-reusable-toilet-paper/

The Good Ancestor website
https://www.romankrznaric.com/good-ancestor

A Resolution for 2021: Be a Better Ancestor (review of The Good Ancestor)
https://grist.org/climate/a-resolution-for-2021-be-a-better-ancestor/

Doughnut Economics
https://www.kateraworth.com/

Flipping Economics on Its Head: Kate Raworth \u2013 episode 219 of Conversation Earth
http://www.conversationearth.org/flipping-economics-head-kate-raworth-219/

Thriving Economy: Not Rocket Science \u2013 episode 220 of Conversation Earth
http://www.conversationearth.org/thriving-economy-not-rocket-science-kate-raworth-220/

Shrinking Your Travel Footprint \u2013 episode 52 of the GrowthBusters podcast
http://www.growthbusters.org/shrinking-your-travel-footprint/

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared \u201ccould be the most important film ever made.\u201d Erika Arias is researching the childfree/environment connection and is about to enter grad school.

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