Onno de Jong was born in 1961. For a Future is his first book, written for his son Taiyo and all the young children inheriting the future — out of a concern for the explosive swarming of humans, the limited resources of planet Earth, and the incessant consumption that is sure to leave this world polluted and in ruin. He studied philosophy at the University of Cincinnati and at the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research under Reiner Schürmann.