El buen antepasado

How can we be good ancestors? We live in the age of the tyranny of now, the 24 hour news, the latest tweet and the "buy now" button. With short-termism so frenetic at the root of contemporary crises -from climate change threats to failure to plan for a global pandemic- the call for long-term thinking grows every day. But has it ever worked? Can we do it? Leading philosopher Roman Krznaric delves into history and the human mind to show that it is possible. From the pyramids to the NHS, humanity has always had the innate ability to plan for posterity and take action that will resonate for decades, centuries, and even millennia. If we want to be good ancestors and be well remembered by the generations that follow us, now is the time to recover and enrich this imaginative ability. The Good Ancestor reveals six ways we can all learn to think long-term, exploring uniquely human talents like "cathedral thinking" that broaden our time horizons and sharpen our foresight. Krznaric celebrates the rebels of time who are reinventing democracy, culture and economy so that we all have the opportunity to become good ancestors.