What is the meaning of “safeguarding of prospects” in this context? [closed]

What is the meaning of “safeguarding of prospects” in the following context (from Mark Everard, The Ecology of Everyday Things [2020])? Does it mean safeguarding or protection of the future prospects? Does it mean something to the effect of making a better future?

And, who knows, by seeing the world differently and touching our rootedness in nature, we may enrich and inform our own lives, our ensuing decisions, and thereby also contribute to the safeguarding of prospects for the myriad people with whom we are unbreakably interconnected by our common ecological dependences.

It could mean the future, but also the present I would say. It’s a somewhat convoluted way of saying that when we are heedless of the impact our actions have on the environment we cause ecological harm that impacts the well-being of a lot of other people.