Inherited debt

Debts affect the generation which follows. Young people wake up to the horrors left them by their elders. They have no trouble putting two and two together to see what and why it has happened. They are familiar with self interest. They understand how forests come to be destroyed. They see how animals come to be factory farmed. They realise why poor nations are made to starve. We older ones are to blame for the destruction and cruelty and waste. The young get angry when they think about what they’ve inherited. But to be completely constructive about the mess we’ve left them we need to look at human nature. What is it? And has it changed much at all over the centuries?
Unless we want the next generation to do exactly what we’ve done we must stop adding to the collective debt. Unless we want today’s kids to spoil their own health, ethics and environment we can’t afford to sit passively by and do nothing. If we do, they will continue taking as we did, until there is nothing left to take.