The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
By: Roman Krznaric
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabi…
Want to Read $ 12.99"What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
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1. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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2. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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3. Wilder Mann
By: Charles Fréger
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The rituals are centuries old and celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life, and death. People … read more
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4. Morele ambitie
By: Rutger Bregman
3.71
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
De grootste verspilling van onze tijd is de verspilling van talent. Iedere carrière duurt 2.000 wer… read more
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"De geschiedenis doet niks. Mensen doen dingen."-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie
"Het doel van leiderschap is om meer leiders te produceren, niet meer volgers."-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie
"De grote advieskantoren zitten vol met toptalenten die niet weten wat ze met hun talent aan moeten, en daarom maar consultant zijn geworden."-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie
"Ja, we hebben activisten nodig die strijden tegen al het onrecht in het hier en nu, maar er is ook behoefte aan makers en bouwers van de toekomst."-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie
5. Ik kom hier nog op terug
By: Rob van Essen
3.78
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more
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"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug
6. De onzichtbaren
By: Frank Nellen
3.88
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
Kiev, eind jaren tachtig. Het eens zo machtige Sovjetimperium wankelt. Tijdens een roerige debatavo… read more
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7. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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8. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
9. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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10. Sander en de brug
By: Sander Schimmelpenninck
3.57
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In de tv-serie Sander en de kloof stelt Sander Schimmelpenninck de ongelijkheid in Nederland aan de… read more
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"Wanneer we onvoldoende doordrongen zijn van onze individuele verantwoordelijkheid voor het grotere geheel, wordt de solidariteit aangetast en wordt egoïsme de standaard."-Sander Schimmelpenninck, Sander en de brug
11. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
12. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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13. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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14. Het plan
By: Nando Boers
4.10
Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition
Het plan geeft de lezer een ongekende blik achter de schermen bij een van de beste sportploegen ter… read more
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15. Nu is het aan ons
By: Eva Rovers
3.97
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Politiek moet je niet te veel aan politici overlaten. Daar zijn onze problemen namelijk te complex … read more
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16. Duidelijkheid
By: Tom-Jan Meeus
3.88
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
'Duidelijkheid' is het essay van de Maand van de Filosofie 2024. Vanaf de eeuwwisseling veranderen … read more
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17. Philosophy for Polar Explorers
By: Erling Kagge
3.77
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What’s better? A bird in your hand or two in the bush? Jump the fence at the lowest or highest poin… read more
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18. Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
By: Jon Alexander
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
McKinsey 2022 Summer Reading List - TOP 5 Recommended Book Citizens opens up a new way of unders… read more
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19. The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
By: Roman Krznaric
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabi… read more
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- sustainability
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"What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"[H]ow can we design an evolutionary learning capability into our political, economic, and social systems so they are not crippled by rigidity in the face of changing circumstance or external shocks."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"[W]e have colonized the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, and nuclear waste, and which…"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
20. The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
By: Richard Fisher
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking. Humans ar… read more
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21. The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth
By: Jeremy Rifkin
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our… read more
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