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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The History of the Environmentalist Movement

I think I'm more optimistic on this in general that perhaps than you are. In the course of doing research for what we owe the future, I dug a lot into the history of various social and moral movements. And one thing it's easy to underestimate is just how weird these ideas were in the past. But when we look like 100 years out, maybe we can. We actually really can affect that sort of sweeping model change where concern for future generations is just on the same level as concern for other people in your community.

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