1st Edition
Anticipation, Sustainability, Futures and Human Extinction Ensuring Humanity’s Journey into The Distant Future
By Bruce E. Tonn
Copyright 2021
250 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book considers the philosophical underpinnings, policy foundations, institutional innovations, and deep cultural changes needed to ensure that humanity has the best chance of surviving and flourishing into the very distant future.
Anticipation of threats to the sustainability of human civilization needs to encompass time periods that span not just decades but millennia. All existential... Read more
1. Introduction
2. A Serendipitous Trip Through Future Time
3. Existential Risks
4. Our Fate is in Our Hands
5: Why We Should Care About Future Generations
6. Twelve Perpetual Obligations
7. Frameworks and Tools for Actions-Oriented Futures Policy Making
8. Anticipatory Institutions and Perpetual Organizations
9. Passing Through a Socio-Cultural Singularity
10. Futures Thoughts
Epilogue
Biography
Bruce E. Tonn is the President of Three, a scientific and educational non-profit whose mission is to foster equitable sustainable futures. He was previously a Professor of Public Policy at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
