THE LONG VIEW: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time, by Richard Fisher (Wildfire, $39.99)
In times of ever-shortening attention spans and increasingly threatening crises, British geologist turned science writer Richard Fisher’s book is a welcome antidote to doomism.
Essentially, it is a cultural history of our relationship with time. But the book’s focus is on the growing philosophical movement of longtermism, and Fisher