What kind of world does a child see when it's 90 years old and looks out the window?

One of the biggest dangers, besides destroying ancient nature and biodiversity, is generational memory loss. A fine term, describing how for each generation the idea of 'nature' is relative to the situation in which that generation was born. If you're born in a world without an Amazon, it's the new norm, and so there's a kind of amnesia.

Leaked UN Climate Report Warns: “Worst yet to come”. Famine, extreme drought and illnesses, all caused by climate change, will affect millions more people in a matter of decades than has been assumed so far. This is evidenced by a leaked UN draft report explaining the impact on humanity of a rapidly warming planet.

Future generations should get a voice on today's political decisions, political scientist Roman Krznaric advocates in his alarming book. The Good Ancestor . How does he see that before him??

How can we be good ancestors?? According to Roman Krznaric (1970), that's the most important question of our time. According to the Australian-British public philosopher, political scientist and writer, never before in the history of mankind, our actions have had such an impact on the future. Think of climate change, the influence of artificial intelligence and biochemical weapons. But future generations are rarely thought when decisions are made, he states in his newest book The Good Ancestor, which appears January 5. Stronger, according to Krznaric, this time is characterized by sickly short-term thinking. Politicians look barely beyond the next election, last poll or tweet.

Roman Krznaric. He describes how indigenous tribes, for example, use “seventh-generation thinking”: with every decision they make, they imagine how the seventh generation after them would think about that. In many indigenous cultures, nature has similar rights to humans: the interests of rivers and forests are equal to people's interests. It is always beware of the myth of the noble savage in this subject: I would not want to trade with Amazon residents, and I think Western culture has also brought a lot of good, for short-term human well-being in any case. But there is still much to learn about relation to nature.