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The Optimist Telescope: Thinking Forward in a Reckless Age

Roman Krasnarek: We have colonized the future. The tragedy is that tomorrow's generations aren't here to challenge this pillaging of their inheritance. He says a global movement has started to emerge with people committed to extending out time horizons towards a longer now. And how can we really think and plan on the scale of millennia? Janine Benyas suggests we learn from nature's 3.8 billion years of evolution.

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