PERILS OF SHORT-TERMISM
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190109-the-perils-of-short-termism-civilisations-greatest-threat
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190109-the-perils-of-short-termism-civilisations-greatest-threat
Richard Fisher notes:
“Modern society is suffering from “temporal exhaustion”, the sociologist Elise Boulding once said. “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future,” she wrote in 1978. We can only guess her reaction to the relentless, Twitter-fuelled politics of 2019. No wonder wicked problems like climate change or inequality feel so hard to tackle right now.
That's why researchers, artists, technologists and philosophers are converging on the idea that short-termism may be the greatest threat our species is facing this century.”
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