How can we safeguard the interests of future generations in the present? This edition of FARSIGHT is dedicated to exploring the practical, ethical, and moral implications of accepting an obligation to coming generations. It includes the insights of policymakers, academics, and writers on a variety of topics, including our chronic neglect of unidentified statistical lives, the case for anti-natalism, whether the demands of future generations justify acts of eco-sabotage, the dangers of rapid population decline, and how a secret vault in the Swiss alps may protect the future diversity of the human microbiome.