Future Myopia — Real Life

How do you forge a relationship to a past that considered future generations expendable?

Future Myopia How do you forge a relationship to a past that considered future generations expendable? Mehitabel Glenhaber May 17, 2021 share Image: From Cloud Crash Nº 3: Diamonds in the sky (2016) by Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (alias HeHe). Courtesy the artists and Aeroplastics, Brussels . http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Future-Myopia.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. As a historian interested in the social history of environmentalism, I spend a lot of time thinking about what people in the past thought about the future. Last fall, while researching the history o

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