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For the first time in the history of humanity, a generation transmits a deliberately degraded world to the next. It's not an accident. This is the balance sheet of a model. Where past generations bequeathed lands, knowledge, languages, institutions and structures capable of passing through time, today's emerging heritage takes the form of an unprecedented planetary passive.
Even the most destructive wars left behind a physically intact world, still capable of regeneration. What the baby boomer generation is about to pass on is another nature: fractured ecosystems, a deeply destabilized climate, massively dilapidated natural resources and ecological debt, the next generations of which will bear the burden without ever having participated in its constitution.
This podcast questions the historical responsibility of a model of prosperity based on overexploitation of the living, cheap energy abundance and the illusion of unlimited growth. It raises a central question: how to think of intergenerational justice when one of them consumes the world as a capital available, leaving the following the environmental, moral and material cost of this predation?
