Alice Vincent's slides from seminar self interest vs self preservation at the Schumacher institute in Bristol UK on June 15th 2011http://www.convergeproject.org/node/107
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1. Self interest vs self preservation – What are the rights of future generations As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1
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3. “The Alliance for Future Generations has been formed to ensure that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought into the heart of UK democracy and policy processes, in order to safeguard the earth and secure intergenerational justice” 3
4. Working Groups Narratives and Framing Legal and Constitutional Change Community-based Action Rio+20 4
7. ITY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN BRITAIN INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN BRITAIN Nearly 2.5 million unemployed Nearly 1 million unemployed youth 20% graduate unemployment 13.2 million people living in poverty -> (2.8 million children, 1.8 million pensioners) 50% of the UK population own less that 1% of national wealth. http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2011/06/12582/ 7
9. Self interest vs self preservation – What are the rights of future generations As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “My concern, like millions of others, is that for the first time for more than a century, the next generation will struggle to do better than the last.” – Ed Miliband “One of the biggest questions facing politicians today is: how do we get better at tackling long-term problems , rather than taking the easy route and leaving them to future governments?” – Nick Clegg 9