What kind of heritage do we leave to our children?
Q-ball asked:
I’m past the half century mark already, and have led a full life, so I am contented, and looking forward to probably some 25 years max of still poluting the air with my cigarette smoke, etc. I am therefore fairly contented, yet I am concerned that my children’s children will have but a barren shell, with no more wild animals, sticky goo for water, and pea soup for air, in their “hot house atmosphere” . . . It is said we are the last generation that can “save” Planet Earth for extinction! The list of species reaching the Red Data Book of endangered species, is growing faster by the day! Urbanization increases at a staggering rate, etc., etc. Are we really trying to make THAT difference?
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I’m past the half century mark already, and have led a full life, so I am contented, and looking forward to probably some 25 years max of still poluting the air with my cigarette smoke, etc. I am therefore fairly contented, yet I am concerned that my children’s children will have but a barren shell, with no more wild animals, sticky goo for water, and pea soup for air, in their “hot house atmosphere” . . . It is said we are the last generation that can “save” Planet Earth for extinction! The list of species reaching the Red Data Book of endangered species, is growing faster by the day! Urbanization increases at a staggering rate, etc., etc. Are we really trying to make THAT difference?
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We will leave our children a world free from all those filthy wild beasts that plague our wilderness…we will leave them empty spaces unlittered with trees and the like…we will block out those pesky stars with our pollution…..oh to be young again and see that perfect world…maybe in the next life
I could find myself agreeing with you if I allowed it.
But the fact is the train was rolling downhill before you and I came along, and you and I can’t stop it, can’t even slow it.
The dead are going to have to bury the dead, and the living are going to have to dig whatever potatoes they can find. Same as always.
If they don’t make it, they’ll just enjoy a shorter life experience than we did.
It is indeed the best of times and the worst of times. I don’t think we’ve reached the tipping point yet. There is still time to change our heedless ways as a civilization and stave off a global ecological disaster. The next dozen years or so will tell the tale.
I don’t think enough people are really trying to make a saving difference, they are indifferent and consuming and trashing at alarming rates. All I can say, at least some of us care. As the population grows the worse the destruction will get. I think people in the future will have to adapt and adjust to the changes in the environment in order to survive.
Heritage is mostly personal to each family.
We teach our children mostly through our behaviour, and not through our ‘teachings’. So watch out, what inspirations and experiences of love are you leaving behind, as that is the true heritage of a human being, the seed of love.
After fifty years, I realize that We have not a clue to the future ! Our plan ” A ” is get everything that we want, NOW !, and our plan ” B” is non-existant.
We are in the process of polluting, & over using our resources to the point of NO-RETURN! So, we ARE leaving A worn out planet to our chidlren’s children, or to the Survivors, whomever!
Every thing heads towards its death with the passage of time. We can’t stop the decay. What we can do is just to slow down the process of decay but not a single generation of human, including ours, cared about it. Why? Because we want to enjoy our own time and are not ready to scarify for our future generations. Every one of us understands it but did we ever make serious efforts to stop atomic weapons.
But I am optimistic that our new generation is showing concern and I hope they will be able to slow down the decay process.