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But the potential return on investment, not least a better planet for generations to come, is enormous.
For example, “agroecology” – a system based on traditional and indigenous knowledge that is passed down through the generations – is easily adaptable to all geographic circumstances.
In other words, Americans overestimate upward social mobility and underestimate the likelihood of remaining stuck in poverty for generations.
Due to her poor health, it is unclear how long she will be able to continue advising Kim Jong-un, now surrounded by military personnel in their seventies and eighties who supported past generations.
But future generations will remember the true source of the terror that was visited upon the Levant over the past seven years.
Many Muslims also understand that the problem of Palestine, unsolved for three generations, goes beyond the suffering of the Palestinian people.
After all, if politicians could not win elections by taking money from some-including future generations, which will have to foot a portion of the bill-and giving it to others, they would have to work much harder to display some ability in producing public benefits for all.
This deficit is entirely of Bush’s own creation, having enacted – and now seeking to extend – tax cuts that are not cuts at all, because they merely shift the burden of fiscal consolidation onto future generations.
Federal health-care spending will grow very rapidly over the next two generations because the things that health care money will be spent on will be increasingly wonderful, and increasingly valued.
But replacing private insurance with public insurance has its own problems: consider the parlous circumstances in which Britain’s National Health System finds itself, the result of generations of politically driven underinvestment in health care.
Sharply rising health-care costs will probably confront governments throughout the developed world with the biggest economic policy issues they will face over the next two generations.
The problem begins with the education system, which used to be more effective not only at educating and training new generations, but also at sorting them into promising career paths.
It is the world’s largest and most powerful country, and the one most responsible for the climate change to this point, it has behaved without any sense of duty – to its own citizens, to the world, and to future generations.
When released, they survive just long enough to mate with wild females, passing along the protein-producing gene, which kills their offspring before they reach maturity – resulting in the species’ elimination after a few generations.
For the first time in decades, millions of Egyptians now feel that they “own” their country, and that they are directly responsible for its well-being, and for that of future generations.
For example, some researchers want to use gene-drive organisms (GDOs) to infiltrate and eliminate entire pest species within a few generations.
Its containment requires changing habits and investing in emission reductions so that future generations will have a habitable planet.
In due course, the respite gained by the older generations will have to be paid for by the younger ones.
So debt reduction will take longer than expected in the aftermath of the global crisis, which will deprive the coming generations of the fiscal space they might need to invest in climate action or in the containment of security threats.
Countries where pension reforms were introduced early have been able to limit the resulting burden on the young and keep the balance between generations approximately fair.
On all of these issues – climate, debt, pensions, and jobs – the younger generations have been made relatively worse off by developments over the last quarter-century.
They plotted kinship relationships over multiple generations, believing that primates must have a complex family life, just like us.
This means examining solutions that are in the global community’s interest (while also complementing national and local interests), particularly with future generations in mind.
It would be nice if our financial markets were more rational than those of previous generations.
We are now back to the more usual situation where war is financed by government debt, which burdens future generations unless it is eroded by inflation.
The alternative is either a sovereign-debt crisis, followed by a destructive spike in borrowing costs, or a growing burden for subsequent generations of taxpayers.
It would also maintain current consumptions levels and avoid tax increases, while redressing public-investment shortfalls in order to boost growth and expand employment options for today’s middle class and future generations.
Finally, future generations would not be asked to bear the entire burden of rebalancing.
Indeed, the Al Saud clan’s third and fourth generations are divided not only in political and religious affiliation, but also range in age from 20 to 90 years old.
We believe that by bringing workers, businesses, and governments together with a united approach to change, we can build a healthier world economy and improve the lives of current and future generations.
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