Finally, there remains the question of how practical, political solutions might be found to the problems that threaten future generations. The four reasons I have described do not, of course, answer that question. They do not demonstrate what shape a politics of the future might take. But they do demonstrate that such a politics need not be left wholly at the mercy of the uncertain motivational power of sympathy. The reasons I have described—reasons of love, reasons of interest, reasons of valuation, and reasons of reciprocity—all have the potential to motivate action aimed at securing the
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