On Moral Obligations to Future Generations - Demos.
Our Common Future noted that we live on the credit of the future “because we can get away with it: future generations do not vote, they have no political or financial power.” 1 Despite calls for integrated policies, decision making continues to be split between and within governing bodies, resulting in policy incoherence or unambitious and stalled agreements.
This reprint of a collection of essays on problems concerning future generations examines questions such as whether intrinsic value should be placed on the preservation of mankind, what are our obligations to posterity, and whether potential people have moral rights.
Duties to Future Generations --- 1 Duties to, and Rights of, Future Generations: An Impossibility Theorem Jan Narveson The Standard View It is rather widely claimed that there are such things as Rights of Future Generations, rights constraining those who live at present. We are abjured not to waste various resources, on the ground that.
Moral Obligations Towards Future Generations in African Thought. Kevin Gary Behrens - 2012 - Journal of Global Ethics 8 (2-3):179-191.
Future Generations and Climate Change. The subject of future generation is an issue that continues to draw multiple reactions globally. In essence, there is a concern regarding the responsibility of the present generation in the preservation of morality.
Our obligations to the future generations The world is in the manner in which it is today because of the policies, decisions and actions that have been taken either in the past or presently. Should the past generations have taken measures to completely ruin the world and its environment then the present generations would not have a pleasant world to live in.
So the fact that future generations may not exist is not a serious objection; in all probability, they will. Still, we know less about and can do less for really distant future generations, so there is good reason to believe that our obligations are weaker farther into the future. But that’s nothing new, either.