Generations
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As human affairs become increasingly complex and morally exigent, future
generations
will need both scientific and humanistic learning – and they will need them more than ever.
Afterwards, many of my relatives, prosperous Indian merchants who had been settled in Myanmar for generations, abandoned homes and businesses in order to save their skins as chaos enveloped the city, later renamed Yangon.
However the Chinese leadership responds, future
generations
may remember 2009 less for its global economic and financial crisis than for the momentous transformation that it caused in China.
Turkey is far from alone in having to face up to terrible crimes committed by previous
generations.
They have the potential to end a cruel cycle of poverty and malnourishment that can last for
generations.
While biological evolution through sexual reproduction requires generations, we can learn from each other much more quickly through cultural evolution, explaining why humans have made so much progress.
We are at a remarkable moment in the long battle to reduce harmful emissions, and we must capitalize on this global commitment to preserve our planet for future
generations.
They are more educated, more urbanized, and more internationally oriented than previous
generations.
Governments that fail to equip new
generations
with the skills needed to become leaders for their time are condemning them to be led by other, more innovative societies.
So, how do we prepare our children and future
generations
for such times?
Then there is America’s huge fiscal and trade deficits, which not only jeopardize the well-being of future American generations, but represent a drag on the current US economy.
Indeed, given the contribution of ignorance, lack of choice, and socioeconomic deprivation to the rise of extremism in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, ensuring that future
generations
have better education, improved capabilities, and more opportunities will ensure that the next generation will not become easy prey for terrorist organizations.
Many
generations
of selection in a particular direction – say, for moving efficiently through the air – can give rise to complicated structures like wings and the coordinated processes of flying.
Epigenetic inheritance occurs not only within individuals during their development; it also occurs between
generations
: individual yeast cells or bacterial cells can transmit epigenetic variations from one generation to the next, and multi-cellular organisms can transmit them through their sperm and eggs.
The work of Michael Skinner and his colleagues provides a good example of this: they found that injecting pregnant rats with a chemical that suppresses androgens (male sex hormones) causes their descendants to have diseases that are inherited for several
generations.
Gal Raz and one of us (EJ) recently went through the scientific literature and found 101 cases of epigenetic inheritance between
generations
of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, plants, and animals, and we are sure that this is just the tip of a very large iceberg.
For example, we know that some environmental insults and stresses, such as temporary starvation, can affect future
generations.
In Africa, pan-African bodies charged with coordinated oversight and agenda-setting authority should be judged by whether mega-PPPs in infrastructure reinforce a colonial-style extraction and consumption economy, or create a healthy and sustainable economy for
generations
to come.
Soon afterwards, the newly created UN, established with the express purpose “to save succeeding
generations
from the scourge of war,” took the threat posed by nuclear arms as its first priority.
This is vital to enable an effective response to the structural problems – such as corruption, environmental pollution, and inequality – that more than two
generations
of rapid growth and development have brought.
Only a few years ago, antitrust authorities in the US were convinced that IBM was locking up the computer industry for
generations
to come.
For example, the World Bank claims that in order to be green, we need to take into account that consuming fossil fuels will deprive future
generations
of those resources.
Debt, however, is a burden imposed by current citizens on future
generations.
These parties made no effort to reach out to the new regimes and the rising new
generations
in the public squares of the Arab world.
The illiterate come mostly from older
generations.
It provides reliable climate information, and emphasizes that adaptation is essential to improving future generations’ quality of life.
They noted the cyclical regularity of such occurrences and speculated that it represented a gap in communications between
generations
of engineers.
Unfortunately, human memory fades with time, and new
generations
of engineers with no vivid experience of past failures can proceed with hubris to design again beyond wise limits.
Some even lost the land they had lived upon for
generations
– the top soil simply slid away, leaving behind hard rock and rubble.
The idea of financial singularity may seem inspiring; but it is no less illusory than the rational Utopia that inspired
generations
of central planners.
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