Jim Brumm: Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World

“Future considerations should dwarf the present—the same way unborn humans vastly outnumber the living, the same way the accumulative never-born of an endangered species should loom over the debate over its protection.” Stewart Brand,  The Long Now Foundation.

Welcome to longtermthinking.net, a site dedicated to encouraging long-term thinking in our nation’s politics, energy policies, agriculture, businesses, and personal lives. It has become apparent that many of the problems we face today, including global warming, the economic meltdown, healthcare costs, environmental degradation, political turmoil, the ongoing energy crisis, and so much more, share one common theme: a lack of foresight. Despite the obvious reasons for changing this, we continue to pursue short-term gains at the expense of our long-term well being. We do this in our national policies, and in our personal lives.