What We Owe the Future

What We Owe the Future is the fullest popular case for 'longtermism', the idea that positively shaping the long-run future is among the most important things we can do.

MacAskill, an Oxford philosopher and co-founder of effective altruism, ranges across the risks of pandemics, artificial intelligence, nuclear war and civilizational collapse, and the leverage points where present action could echo for millennia. intendle recommends it as a lucid, ambitious work of moral philosophy that stretches the reader's sense of responsibility across deep time. An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller that prompted a TIME cover story, it has shaped a real intellectual movement, controversy and all.