Irreversible Choices and Future Generations’ Rights

Intergenerational Justice Review Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations

Efficiency and future generations

Standard lessons from economics tell us that an externality creates inefficiency, and that this inefficiency can be removed by internalizing the externality. This papers considers how successfully these lessons can be extended to intergenerational externalities such as emissions of greenhouse gas. For intergenerational externalities, the standard lessons involve comparisons between states whose...

Why Consider Future Generations

This paper explores the question of our responsibility to future generations in the light of our capacity to radically damage their quality of life, if not prevent their very existence. It introduces the concept of active future timescape as part of a strategy to expand our capacity to think about, empathise with, and take active consideration toward future generations. The notion that we have ...

Multitasking across generations: Multitasking choices and difficulty ratings in three generations of Americans

This study investigated whether changes in the technological/social environment in the United States over time have resulted in concomitant changes in the multitasking skills of younger generations. One thousand, three hundred and nineteen Americans from three generations were queried to determine their at-home multitasking behaviors. An anonymous online questionnaire asked respondents to indic...

Educational Challenges for Future Generations

The paper describes present condition in education system in regard to current social circumstances, both national and foreign ones. Also, the issue of unpreparedness (at all possible levels) regarding the impact of foreign “interested parties” is treated. Specific interest exists for the possible innovation of university teaching and the active engagement of both academics and students. Resear...