Who Speaks For The Unborn?

We all love our children. We pamper them, protect them, care for them, worry about them and we tend to keep on doing this right into old age. We want the best for our children and lavish stuff on them that we did not get ourselves. But what about our children's children and their children and their children and so on? Who speaks for the unborn?

This is an important question to ponder. Our descendants yet unborn will inherit a world and a society that will be a reflection of the decisions that we make today. What kind of a living standard will they enjoy depends entirely on us. Will they be able to enjoy nature as we have enjoyed it? Will they have the type of resources that we are using? Answering these and similar questions will determine how we behave in the world in the time allotted to us. Are we caretakers or masters?

So far, we have answered in the latter. We are behaving as if we are masters of the world. The rate and the manner in which consume resources, it is as though we think there will be no future generations. Actually those waiting for the rapture to occur do think in this manner! Masters use available resources as they see fit. The double tragedy is that even the renewable resources are being consumed with such wild abandon that large number of these are under the threat of extinction.