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When ancestral guidance meets immediate survival pressure

My mom keeps telling me I need to think seven generations ahead when I make decisions but I can barely think past next month's rent.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic precarity makes it nearly impossible to embody the long-term thinking that sustains communities and ecosystems.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buen Vivir — Latin American indigenous worldview and technology?”

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