Swallow this: the Tea Party is giving environmentalists lessons on how to communicate about intergenerational equity. Or put it another way, why the survival of pretty pandas, ugly warthogs and tuna fish sandwiches really matters.
Intergenerational equity – allowing future generations the same survival chances as us – is fundamental to the idea of sustainable development. Why bother having children if you’re going to give them and their progeny a parched patch of earth to scratch on?
Our societies will not sustain themselves, the argument goes, unless we protect the environment that provides us with the ability to feed and water ourselves.
Furthermore, those pandas, warthogs and crawly critters that hide under stones are all part of a complicated ecosystem where the individual components are interdependent – remove one from the mix by eating too many of them and whoosh, the system starts misfiring.
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