final self interest_vs_self_preservation_ppp
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Alice Vincent's slides from seminar self interest vs self preservation at the Schumacher institute in Bristol UK on June 15th 2011http://www.convergeproject.org/node/107TRANSCRIPT
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SELF INTEREST VS SELF PRESERVATION – WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Alliance for Future Generations
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“The Alliance for Future Generations has been formed to ensure that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought into the heart of UK democracy and policy processes, in order to safeguard the earth and secure intergenerational justice”
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WORKING GROUPS
1. Narratives and Framing
2. Legal and Constitutional Change
3. Community-based Action
4. Rio+20
“Bringing interests of future generations to the centre of policy-making”
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World Future Council work-diagram
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ITY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN BRITAIN
• INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE
• IN BRITAIN
• Nearly 2.5 million unemployed• Nearly 1 million unemployed youth• 20% graduate unemployment• 13.2 million people living in poverty
-> (2.8 million children, 1.8 million pensioners)
50% of the UK population own less that 1% of national wealth.
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2011/06/12582/
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http://vandalog.tumblr.com/post/4207232199/
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Self interest vs self preservation – What are the rights of future generationsAs for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“My concern, like millions of others, is that for the first time for more than a century, the next generation will struggle to do better than the last.” – Ed Miliband
“One of the biggest questions facing politicians today is: how do we get better at tackling long-term problems , rather than taking the easy route and leaving them to future governments?” – Nick Clegg