When asked to sacrifice for the wellbeing of future Generations, some members of the present generation may reject the request with the retort, "What have future generations ever done for me?" They have a point, of course, because the usual motivations for cooperation and mutual caring among people, such as reciprocity and exchange, are absent.

À present sacrifice for the welfare of future people appears to be a one-way street. On the face of it, people who will live a hundred or so years from now and beyond can do little or nothing of material worth for present people who, by then, will be Dead.

Confronting such a view, how do futurists justify their concerns for the future and their distinctive commitment to speak for as yet voiceless future people?

More important, how do they persuade the present generation to share their concern about the future and take present, possibly costly, action for the well-being of future people?

To date, futurists have done important work in describing coming problems and opportunities ranging from military and political developments, energy, resources, and the environment to food production, health, and education. But, with a few exceptions (Tough, 1991), they have not given as much attention to the reasons why the present generation ought to care about a future that they will never live to see.

What ought we to do? One alternative is to do nothing for future generations. We could simply carry on wasting, polluting, dumping, exhausting, burning, and destroying the earth and its plants and creatures.

Let posterity take care of itself when-or if-the future comes. Who cares about as yet unborn people who might or might not be alive on earth 500 or 5,000 or 10,000 years from now?

Who other than a few loony futurists can think that far ahead anyway?

We recall the heroes and exemplars of human history .....

The religious teaching of Love, compassion and justice.

The sacrifices our parents and grandparents made for us; and the comradeship, affection , and love off our family, and our friends , our neighbours, our teachers, and our small communities of mutual caring .The human condition is constituted in such memories.

And the human condition is also constituted in hope ……

The meaning of our lives depend importantly in our visions for the future, there is no thing left but despair.

Thus , if we give up on the future , we give up on ourselves

-A concern for present people implies a concern for future people. No clear demarcation exists between one generation and the next, thus a concern for people living now carries us a considerable way into caring about future people.

We care and we ought to care about our own wellbeing . Some part of the near future is partly the responsibility behaviour of varying for ourselves.Let us not forget that each of us has a such primary responsibility .

Moreover , we care about our own children and grandchildren , if we have them , because we love them . They will care about their children and grandchildren and they , in turn ,will care about theirs , Thus, The chain of human connection and caring continue unbroken in the future.

Past generations left many of the public goods that they created not only to the present generation but to future generations as well. Every generation is an heir to the legacies of past generations.

Humble ignorance ought to lead present generations to act with prudence toward the well-being of future generations. Generally, moral responsibility grows with knowledge and foresight.

If we know that the consequence of shooting a rifle aimed at a man is that he will be killed or badly hurt, then that knowledge

The present generation's caring and sacrificing for future generation benefits not only future generations but but also itself. "

If our ethical concern can evolve to equal our awesome modern capacities

to help and to hurt, around the globe and across generations,..

we would no doubt find new truth in the old moral paradox

that a concern for others benefits one's own character"

Ultimately, caring about the future generation is a way to contribute to a more equitable and sustainable world for all.

Dear Christ Church Primary School children, and future Generation

I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

To: Decision maker, Local Authority ,Diocese of Southwark and School Governors >>

And if you ask me how I'm feeling

Don't tell me you're too blind to see