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18 wrz 2022 · We make laws that govern them, build infrastructure for them and take out loans for them to pay back. So what happens when we consider future generations while we make decisions today?
The term refers to the impact which the currently living generation has on the world which future generations will live in, the world they will inherit from humans living today.
2 gru 2023 · The articles provide novel insights to this theme through a survey of 65 Finnish and international futures scholars and foresight experts. Considering alternative conceptualizations of future generations may help enable for considering future generations’ interest in policy and law-making.
16 sie 2022 · What will future generations think of us? Perhaps they will see us as selfish and myopic. Or perhaps they will look back on us with gratitude, for the steps we took to leave them a better world.
25 cze 2024 · In partnership with young people across the world, the two cohorts of Next Generation Fellows are building the ‘Engine Room of the Future’ — a digital, intergenerational platform to reimagine how the United Nations thinks, plans, and acts for the future.
Based on the Secretary-General’s paper, this Policy Brief aims to shed light on why it is important to adopt a future generations approach in policy design as a way to achieve long-term sustainability and to examine how the UN intends to embrace this approach in practice. Future generations are at the heart of sustainable development.
24 sty 2024 · In his essay, Ingmar Persson addresses a number of traditional problems concerning future generations and links them to a reflection on the emotional sources underlying our morality. Contrary to some popular arguments, he posits that causing someone’s existence can be beneficial to them.