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The alternative – allowing serious housing shortages to go unaddressed – will make it impossible for future
generations
to put down roots.
The task is undoubtedly huge, but it will be dwarfed by the gains in prosperity that will benefit current and future
generations.
The result is environmental degradation, unsustainable public debt, and
generations
of under-educated, unemployable people who will have difficulty raising their own children to become productive adults.
Article 20a of Germany’s Grundgesetz (Basic Law) stipulates that, “Mindful also of its responsibility toward future generations, the state shall protect the natural foundations of life and animals by legislation and, in accordance with law and justice, by executive and judicial action…”By demonstrating that younger living citizens suffer more than their older counterparts from short-sighted fiscal and environmental policies, Juliana could be the first step toward recognizing a similar responsibility in the US.
Unforeseeable state debt – at the cost of coming
generations
– is neither a viable nor an ethical solution.
In some cases, they had been there for generations; when faced with eviction notices, some families argued that the bungalows had effectively become memorials to their famous ancestors and that they should thus be allowed to remain.
In short, the next two
generations
of Greeks will grow up with the troika and its “process” (perhaps under a different name) as a permanent fixture of life.
They cannot simply do what is best for their country today; they must also consider the implications of their choices – how much oil wealth they consume, how much to invest in human and physical capital, and how much to save – for future
generations.
As matters currently stand, when future
generations
place our leaders in historical perspective, they will most likely reproach them, above all, for their lack of institutional imagination.
With most households continuing to face stagnating or falling incomes – and with younger
generations
thus on track to be poorer than their parents – such solutions are urgently needed.
But, despite the enormous potential impact of such a breakthrough and the efforts of
generations
of physicists to achieve it, we still do not know which theory is the right one.
Some Britons (perhaps even a majority), and many other EU citizens, still want future
generations
to think of themselves as Europeans (albeit with a proud British, German, or Spanish origin), and are prepared to take another shot at reforming Europe’s governance structures.
The slaves – and
generations
of their descendants – were routinely murdered.
Three
generations
after West Indians began immigrating en masse to the United Kingdom, Caribbean-descended Britons still doubt that their children or grandchildren will ever be seen as fully British.
Turkish Gastarbeiter are still, two
generations
later, not seen as fully German.
And, indeed, the language of a larger political union was embedded in Europe’s treaties, to be interpreted by the European Court of Justice and subsequent
generations
of European decision-makers in ways that supported the construction of a common European polity and identity, as well as a unified economy.
No one-day holiday can do much to redress
generations
of discrimination.
But until we start to look at drug policy through a gender-sensitive lens and focus on harm reduction, we will continue to wage a losing war on drugs, in which
generations
of our most vulnerable women and girls are casualties.
And they should focus especially on AMR, which poses a threat to current and future
generations
alike.
These tools are a form of technology that we need to use now, so that future
generations
have a chance.
If we fail to make progress in these areas now, future
generations
will judge our inaction as expensive, unjust, and immoral.
If we do, the current generation of African leaders has a unique opportunity to protect future
generations
from a climate disaster, deliver on the promise of energy for all, and build shared prosperity.
This played a significant role in setting the stage for the two fastest
generations
of global economic growth the world has ever seen.
His supporters soon numbered in the thousands, rather than the dozens, and he came to inspire generations, not just individual inmates.
Today’s
generations
are far too comfortable with being German to see Europe as the answer to all of their problems.
Other public services were improving as well, and parents believed that their children would lead more prosperous lives than they and previous
generations
had.
Appeals are made to justice between generations, and accusations are commonly heard of a "betrayal" of those who come after us.
The irony - indeed, the tragedy - is that few policies are so inequitable and morally iniquitous as those that propose huge burdens on today’s generation, particularly its poorer members, in order to prevent what will be at worst an insignificant reduction in the incomes of future
generations
- who will, in any case, be far richer than we are today.
Our objective should be to bequeath future
generations
that decent society.
In the talks leading up to the conference, a consensus has emerged that climate change is not only linked to many other major environmental problems (climate, water, soil, and biodiversity are all a part of the same system); it is also intertwined with social and economic challenges, like poverty, sustainable development, and the wellbeing of future
generations.
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