Paul Bloom Quotes

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

Governments, however, must think not only of the present, but of the rights of future generations.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.

Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?'

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

Think globally, act locally.

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

When you talk to the public about the environment it goes in one ear and out the other. They are only interested in the now.

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

It's important that we take care of our future generations and expose them to some new things.

What may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don't stand up for it, then who will?