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In his Introduction to an anthology entitled Responsibility to Future Generations Ernest Partridge (1981) puts some rather challenging questions to the reader. “What do we owe posterity?” he asks, and he goes on to say that “the question is unavoidable, for the course of human events has forced the issue upon us. We of this generation have in our hands unprecedented power to affect the future — forever.” And further, he says: “... it appears that we are not morally permitted simply to let the future be, for our responsibility is forced upon us”.
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Pasek, J. (1993). Philosophical Aspects of Intergenerational Justice. In: Giersch, H. (eds) Economic Progress and Environmental Concerns. A Publications of the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78074-5_3
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