
Why MacAskill Is Wrong about What We Owe the Future
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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The Future Is Knowledge
We could have stopped climate change if we weren't using fossil fuels a hundred years ago. And that's why it's so important to think about the future in terms of principles, not in terms of trying to solve each and every concrete policy. "If our generation pursues our interests by protecting freedom and then creating a lot of knowledge and prosperity, that is exactly what creates the ability to solve future problems," he says.
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