Greetings. We talk a lot on this podcast about the future, about energy, about the economy,

about money, about geopolitics, about the environment and the planetary boundaries,

mostly using facts and synthesis and description. We also talk about what people care about. People have different value systems.

But I think there's a different categories of the philosophical viewing of the future.

And I've come up with seven categories and I'd briefly like to describe these because I don't think we can assume that everyone

else views the future in the same logical philosophical framework that we do.

So firstly, in recent presentations, we don't all care about the same thing.

Some people, a lot of people care about the rich nations or the rich

people in the nations. And that's their focus when they look at the future. There are others

that care about materially, as opposed to spiritually or psychically poorer countries and

poor people in countries.

Another group of people and these groups overlap

care about other species and the ecosystems of our one blue-green earth.

And others, or at a deeper level, there are people who care about other generations, the unborn of

our species and other species on this planet, 100 years from now, a thousand years from now,

a million years from now. So when we think about what's going to happen in the future,

we already care about different things. But how do we even

think about the future? Here are seven categories. The first category is they don't. A lot of people

alive today and for most of our past are so busy focusing on putting food on the table and having safety

and warmth and shelter and basic needs that the future is basically tomorrow or even tonight.

They can't even conceive of five years from now or a hundred years from now because they're

fully focused on meeting the needs of the present.

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