This is unhelpful framing. What if we could both care about the problems of today and also care about the long term survival of our species? They’re not incomp

This is unhelpful framing. What if we could both care about the problems of today and also care about the long term survival of our species? They’re not incompatible. In fact care and concern are probably self reinforcing. The more the better. Criticism of longtermism seems to center around two concerns: I will discount these ideas because of who has them, and don’t think of the big picture because the immediate picture is so bad. Neither of which are very good arguments.