1000 Flowers for the Planet - #88 Respect the Future
We have not inherited the earth from our
ancestors, we have borrowed it from our children.
An Internet search for the origin of this
saying has attributed the idea of it to my very own Australian Minister for the
Environment, Mr Moses Henry Cass, in 1974.
It’s a wonderful statement. It bears the
truth of the matter, and should remind us of where we stand in the scheme of
things. We are none of us here for our unadulterated pleasure. What has been
made available for us is a valuable gift, one which should be used wisely. We
cannot continue to use resources and disrespect other species as we do now. We
must learn to plan for the future, respect the future, or there will be no
future. And what would be the point in bearing children?
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