A Pledge to Future Generations is a literary branch from Dr. Allen Tough's book; Crucial Questions About the Future.

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Kyle Roerick                                                             November 11, 2002

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A Pledge to Future Generations

        A Pledge to Future Generations is a literary branch from Dr. Allen Tough’s book; Crucial Questions About the Future. Dr. Tough, a professor of future studies at the University of Toronto wrote his book in 1991. He was selected by the global community to address his writings at the world’s largest conference on future generations in Kyoto Japan in November of 1994.

Cordial greetings, from future generations, to everyone who is attending The First Global Future Generations Kyoto Forum. We are the people of the future--your children's generation, and many generations even further into the future. Even though we live in a century that is very different from yours, we too are people, vigorously engaged in a wide variety of activities and projects, just as you are. Just like you, we work, play, talk, eat, laugh, hope, cry, sing, learn, worship, think, and wonder. We are very pleased that you care so deeply about the well-being of future generations. That is what we want most from you: your caring for us, your concern for our well-being, your willingness to take our needs as seriously as you take your own needs. From many decades in the future, we send you our gratitude, our admiration, and our love.

  • Dr. Allen Tough

  1. To care about the well-being of future generations. Their needs are just important as those of today.
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We must always when making decisions or choices of great importance focus on how it will affect our future generations. The future generations are the youth of today, our future children, our children’s future children, and so on. Their decisions and actions will greatly influence the well-being of all of us who live after they do. So we must greatly focus on how we care for our future generations and most importantly create an enlightening environment so that they mature into responsible educated adults. But why are these children’s decisions so vital to the establishment of a better tomorrow? ...

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