Listen to This Essay: The Case for Shorttermism

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Listen to This Essay: The Case for Shorttermism

Concern for generations unborn is laudable and right, but is it really a pre-requisite for saving the world?

Robert Wright

Sep 06, 2022

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The Case for Shorttermism

This weekend the New York Times devoted its weekly ideas showcase—the front of its Sunday Opinion section—to “longtermism,” the idea that, as the essay in the Times put it, “positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time…

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