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To do otherwise is to infringe upon the rights of members of future generations, to whom natural assets also belong.
If the jobs of ruling and moneymaking are shared across generations, or among brothers or cousins or in-laws, criticism is more easily deflected.
The more the global ocean struggles for life, the more our children and future generations will struggle for theirs.
And yet almost everyone has a migrant somewhere in their family tree, often not many generations back.
In many regions of Africa, for example, young people are disillusioned with politics, convinced that wealthy older people will always prevail and advance their own interests, often at the expense of younger generations.
More and more Americans are being led to forget how, just a few years ago, a united US government reacted decisively to “market failures” and thus helped to avoid a global economic meltdown that would have devastated millions of lives and undermined future generations’ prospects.
Feeding infants well starts a virtuous circle, with increasing benefits for succeeding generations.
There is a discussion of how much of the burden to pass on to future generations.
Beyond harming the economic wellbeing of current and future generations, this outcome would undermine social and political cohesion.
East Europeans have been fighting for generations for national liberation -- not only from the USSR, but from the Nazis, Hapsburgs, Ottomans, Kaisers, Tsars, Mongols and the other European empire-builders going back to Charlemagne.
Otherwise, the violence would continue, spawning new hostages to history – and ensuring that future generations would be taught new wrongs to set right.
But, in order to ensure that such changes have the maximum positive impact, without hurting younger generations, they must be designed fundamentally differently.
Worse still, the brutal oppression of the Kurds over many generations has been totally overlooked.
Our unique psychological capacities allow us to learn from one another over generations, facilitating a cumulative cultural evolutionary process that produces increasingly complex and sophisticated technologies, languages, bodies of knowledge, conceptual toolkits, and adaptive heuristics.
It was none other than the Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Salah al-Bardawil, who defined the cease-fire as “a historic opportunity for all the sides involved to live in peace, and to build a future for the next generations.”
Most farmland is acquired through hereditary or communal distribution systems, and when new plots are allocated, they are typically smaller than those provided to previous generations.
The government’s proposals have three aims: to guarantee that future generations will receive a pension; to ensure that all employed people are entitled to receive a national pension; and to minimize the cost of the system and make it self-sustaining.
First, if “soft power” means exercising influence because “others want what you want,” as Joseph Nye puts it, then women the world over want what American feminists began fighting for three generations ago.
Together with the leaders of the Carbon Pricing Panel, we call on governments to seize the moment – for the sake of the planet and future generations – to put a price on carbon pollution that reflects the environmental damage it causes.
Similarly, a debt left unpaid too long by a government is a burden on future generations: I may enjoy the benefits of government extravagance, but my children will have to foot the bill.
Third, the national debt is not a net burden on future generations.
But trying to reduce it now will be a net burden on future generations: income will be lowered immediately, profits will fall, pension funds will be diminished, investment projects will be canceled or postponed, and houses, hospitals, and schools will not be built.
Future generations will be worse off, having been deprived of assets that they might otherwise have had.
We need to revisit the structures of global governance, to ensure that they work better for people everywhere, and in the interests of both current and future generations.
The decline in lifetime spending will ultimately have a negative impact on growth and potentially generate social fault lines for the coming generations.
Indeed, such reforms can even undermine traditional rights and customary obligations worked out among communities over many generations.
The US has run chronic current-account deficits for almost two generations.
Making matters worse, when China needs to use its savings – accumulated over two generations and packed into US Treasury bills – to alleviate fiscal constraints, it will find that the value of its foreign-exchange reserves has already evaporated.
The end of polio should mark not just the defeat of a terrible disease, but also the beginning of a new phase in the effort to reduce childhood suffering and death, the benefits of which will be felt for generations to come.
In all conflicts, human rights are among the first casualties, and in the Middle East the degradation of human dignity has now undone international conventions agreed over several generations.
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