From Don Martin, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
It brings me joy to encounter the optimism of youth (10 September, p 27). The only statement that I disagree with in William MacAskill’s article about ensuring a better world for coming generations, is that “a dystopian future is far from inevitable”.
My view comes after a lifetime of fighting for the exact same moral values that he holds. The evidence that our way of living is unsustainable in the long term first appeared when I was a young adult in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It seemed then that we really might be able to bring about a rejection of the consumerism that was ruining our planet.
That was a false hope. Nearly everyone, from the richest to the poorest, wants more. What we need to save Earth is sustainable diminishment, not growth.
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