A society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit.

Yesterday we discussed the difficult task of creating Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, today I want to talk about longtermism, or the idea of doing the right thing for the future generations.

1. William MacAskill on Longtermism
2. Read about Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages at BBC.
3. Listen to 99% Invisible's Podcast or the Stuff You Should Know podcast on the long term messages.
4. More reading: https://longtermism.com/
5. And: https://80000hours.org/articles/future-generations/
6. And: https://www.forethought.org/longtermism

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