Understanding the long-term consequences of your actions. [11]

This message goes to the heart of the deep-time perspective. On the one hand, it serves to extend our imaginations from a short now to a longer now, where Homo sapiens are here for little more than an eyeblink of cosmic time. We are merely bit players appearing on stage for the briefest moment in a story stretching over aeons. On the other hand, it

Rather than thinking on a scale of seconds, days and months, we should extend our time horizons to encompass decades, centuries and millennia. Only then would we be able to truly respect and honour the generations to come.