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

What is the meaning of “safeguarding of prospects” in this context? Does that 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.