What we owe the future (Record no. 662415)
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| fixed length control field | 01818nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780861546138 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 1 |
| Classification number | 171.8 |
| Item number | MAC-W |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | MacAskill, William |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | What we owe the future |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | By William MacAskill |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Great Britain: |
| Name of publisher | Oneworld Book, |
| Year of publication | c2022. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | i-vii+335P. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Part I. The Long View: The case for longtermism<br/>You can shape the course of history<br/>Part II. Trajectory Changes: Moral change<br/>Value lock-in<br/>Part III. Safeguarding Civilisation: Extinction<br/>Collapse<br/>Stagnation<br/>Part IV. Assessing the End of the World: Is it good to make happy people?<br/>Will the future be good or bad?<br/>Part V. Taking Action: What to do |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hundred thousand years hence. Our duty of care to each of those individuals is the same. Positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. This is the idea fuelling a burgeoning movement of longtermist thinkers: it explains why Elon Musk is trying to colonise Mars and why Jeff Bezos spent" |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Altruism Artificial intelligence Moral and ethical aspects Civilization, Modern Forecasting Climatic changes Moral and ethical aspects Environmental ethics Ethics Ethics, Evolutionary Existential ethics Future life Moral and ethical aspects Future, The Human beings Extinction Human beings Forecasting Humanity Moral and ethical aspects Moral motivation Responsibility Social prediction |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://www.worldcat.org/title/1306274290 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home Library | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | 03/11/2022 | 171.8 MAC-W | DCB4170 | 03/11/2022 | Book |