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The Future is Vast: Longtermism’s perspective on humanity’s past, present, and future - Our World in Data

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If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

Home Life Expectancy The point of this text is not to predict how many people will ever live. What I learned from writing this post is that our future is potentially very, very big. If we keep each other safe – and protect ourselves from the risks that nature and we ourselves pose – we are only at the beginning of human history. Our actions today impact those who will live in that vast future that is ahead of us. Our impact can be negative – for example when we degrade the environment that future generations will inherit from us, or when we develop technologies that create risks for them. But

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